Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2013

Location : King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. The course will include a lecture providing insight into the best practices of featured tools, and a hands-on learning component to help participants explore the tools directly on their laptops or in small group facilitated discussions. Date : January 23, 2013.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2025

QR code donations Another effective way to facilitate mobile giving, especially when donors interact with physical marketing materials, is through QR code donations. A study from the University of Notre Dame revealed that people are much less likely to donate to charities when using smartphones than when using computers.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With AIs help, you can map out your own universe of awesome. Claude Pro provided an excellent overview of the kinds of books Ive selected for the book group I facilitate over the past eight years. Or make a Custom GPT or an AI Poe bot to share a group taste atlas with a class, a book group, or others who share an interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. Ideally, you’d run this workshop with your team, organization, community group, etc. Be sure to watch their space for more! Presentation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Organizations, whether nonprofits, institutions, human services, or even ad hoc groups, can harness these elements of communities and use a community-driven model to design programs and services as well as create a platform for collaboration, and reposition themselves as the heart of the community. Community-Driven Model. Libraries + Media.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Scholar Program Award to share her expertise at the University of Eswatini. Seeing the benefits of Tableau first hand, she incorporated it into a data analytics workshop she was preparing for a group of liberal arts students. She has led several faculty training workshops at Morgan State University to upskill School of Business peers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation. Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Let’s Define Your Community Since your mission is to facilitate philanthropy in order to move your mission forward, let’s talk about your philanthropic community – the donors, volunteers, advocates and ambassadors who fuel your work, making your impact the greatest it can be. But it won’t happen unless you facilitate it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Over the intervening years, the company has introduced increasingly sophisticated fintech tools to facilitate invoicing and expand payment options.In market of more than $76 billion by 2030. In 2016, LeafLink launched as a marketplace to connect brands with retailers and streamline the ordering process.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2014

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. Cameras off does not mean meeting participants are disengaged.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Looking to make some extra cash in college, I joined a small but relentless army of student workers calling alumni and asking them to donate to the university. If you’ve graduated from a four-year university in the past century, chances are you’ve received a call like this. Mostly, I enjoyed talking with older alumni.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

I occasionally get invited to small group brainstorms of key leaders in fields where we’re active (and we’re active in a lot of fields!). I’m on the plane home from one such weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, held at Brown University.

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Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With so many online meetings, perhaps your group is just plain tired of staring at a screen. Lucky you for facilitating an important session at the wrong time. If you search online, you’ll find plenty of tips and strategies for facilitating in our new remote universe. Use a warm-up question.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The facilitator of the service, BethAnn McLaughlin, co-founder of the support network MeTooSTEM, had recently been accused of harassment herself. If you go to a support group and say you have that ailment, these groups are supportive by nature, it’s considered uncool to question someone’s illness.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Medley , the group coaching platform that focuses on both personal and professional development, announced the close of a $3.7 The platform launched back in July of 2020 with the goal of facilitating small group discussions led by a professional development coach. million seed round led by a16z today.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 23, 2010

He earned his PhD in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. The “smooth” part refers to ClientTrack’s ability to facilitate (i.e., We are currently in the first phase of implementation with a group of three Community Action Agencies in Massachusetts. The words “smoothly” and “effectively” are essential to notice.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2022

Consider using a trained facilitator for this kind of training to address these concerns. Nonprofits are known for their expertise in effective group work. By making our teams more diverse, the outcomes from group work will become even greater. Homogeneous groups tend to be confident in the work they produce.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The leader as facilitator -- You ensure that meetings, team dynamics, and interpersonal relationships function effectively. The leader as change agent/catalyst -- You hold team members accountable, make the unpopular decisions, energize the group to action and enable breakthroughs where possible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Where to begin.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. They published “ Ten Rules Simple Rules for Meaningful Meetings.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Some examples of this are our new Epidemics and pandemics and Artificial intelligence subject codes—work that would have been captured only as “Health” or “Computer science”—and new People living in rural areas population code, a group that we wouldn’t have been able to capture with our previous population codes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

We are committed to actively advocating for clear and consistent science-based climate policies that facilitate a just and equitable global transition to a 1.5°C org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. University of Massachusetts Amherst. From nonprofits like 350.org

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Say goodbye to paper bid sheets, long checkout lines, and payment reconciliation issues—Qgiv prioritizes efficiency and facilitates positive experiences for auction planners, volunteers, and donors alike. Most helpful features Mobile bidding , including app and web-based options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. In short, an example would be a group of self-directed learners coming together online to organize a course without the direction of an instructor.

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