Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve done many multiple day, intense training sessions. Do you have a preferred method? What do you want to learn from working together? Overnight Reflection.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 28, 2024

Rather than focusing on skills your team hasn’t yet learned, invest in what your staff knows and perfect those skills. You can always work on incrementally improving someone’s skills, but I also strongly believe that you can’t train a fundamental weakness out of someone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Compasspoint as part of my continuing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The demand for low-code development is driven by several factors, such as the need for digital transformation, the appeal of automating repetitive tasks, the shortage of skilled developers, the benefit of cost and time savings compared to traditional development, and the empowerment of creative problem solvers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

We're wrapping up an intense couple of days here in Zurich, and I take the spectacular train to Davos this afternoon. Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. One of our first programs is our culinary school in Port-Au-Prince, which helps train aspiring chefs from Haiti and give them the skills they need to obtain jobs in Haiti’s growing tourism industry. We're currently active in 10 different countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

I’m giving my support as well as sharing my teaching and technology skills with Women’s Rights organizations in Ukraine. The project is called “ Tech2Empower ,” organized by Wake , an organization on a quest to leverage technology for women’s empowerment globally. In Ukraine, nearly 2 million people are internally displaced.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking provides video and broadcast training to young people. The students are generally post-high school, but have no access to further education or training. The organization offers therapy, developmental activities, and job training. Children and Education.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 13, 2024

While many challenges arise, one stands out as the most significant: recruiting, training, and retaining volunteers. Offer flexibility: Provide options for different time commitments and skill levels to accommodate diverse schedules. Ongoing training : Provide opportunities for skill development and growth.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute – Global Press Institute (GPI) advances both responsible global journalism and community empowerment by offering journalism training to women around the world.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. For the previous 25 years, the CEO, a social worker by training, had built a large board that, over time, had become unwieldy. Takeaway 3: The board needs training.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. skills are taught through a practical hands-on course that guides. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. Learn More About Mobile Action Lab: Youth Trained to Develop and Market Apps. technological solution.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

an intensive, year-long empowerment and skills-based training for the returning men, coupled with a marketing strategy of recruiting business customers to hire graduates of the program. He established Twin Cities Rise! ,

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Nonprofits are busy, and it can be difficult to find time to learn new skills. easyLearning's Course Library includes 1,500 online courses in professional development, information technology and "desktop skills" such as Microsoft Office and Windows. Self-paced online courses from easyLearning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Implement Compliance Training Extensive compliance training is crucial to ensure employees have the essential knowledge and skills needed for compliance. Using an LMS simplifies the training process so that compliance modules can be created, delivered, and tracked.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Implement Compliance Training Extensive compliance training is crucial to ensure employees have the essential knowledge and skills needed for compliance. Using an LMS simplifies the training process so that compliance modules can be created, delivered, and tracked.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Implement Compliance Training Extensive compliance training is crucial to ensure employees have the essential knowledge and skills needed for compliance. Using an LMS simplifies the training process so that compliance modules can be created, delivered, and tracked.

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Effective Management Build Strategy 52

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. One in five people there live at the poverty level.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

They’re looking for creative ways to retain staff, keep them happy and engaged, deal with burnout, bridge skills gaps, and implement new technology to help it all come together. Bridging Skills Gaps. Nonprofits can also support retention by helping current employees build new skills or upgrade existing ones.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 19, 2021

Global Empowerment Mission has already deployed one ship full of supplies to Haiti and is continuing to raise funds to aid in their distribution efforts. Together for Haiti exists to train and provide resources for the Haitian people that will aid spiritual, economic, educational, and physical development. Learn more and donate here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Rather, it involves the inability to succeed in your role due to organizational barriers or the inability to bring the bulk of your individual talents, skills, and abilities to your job." Further, "in an organizational context, frustration is not as simple as failing to get something you want.

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