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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The afternoon was a space for structured interaction between participants to examine their impact leadership questions and to provide some peer advice. The small group exercises required that each person practice facilitated listening. Londell facilitated this exercise and I was delighted to experience it as a participant.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling. 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. was recently adopted in Massachusetts.

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Social Media and Mobile for Real Time Professional Learning at Conferences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. In contrast, mobile polling offers is a more structured form of interaction. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Award Winning Combinations for Social Change

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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. We want to impact the lives of 100s of thousands of babies in the next couple years," said Liang.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

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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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