Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators. When connecting with board members , consider how to persuade them that philanthropy facilitation is everyone’s job. It’s in your job description. It takes a village.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. The book is available on Amazon. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Then, Pace interviews a new user for 15 to 30 minutes to learn about what they hope to get out of the experience. Once a group is formed, they meet weekly with a facilitator at the helm. While it’s not trying to be a therapy replacement, the startup is looking for facilitators who are licensed in mental health practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

I was honored to design and facilitate a panel at SXSW on Sunday called " Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change." Seattle Free School , suggested by Amy Sample Ward, uses social media to organize classes and teach students. Invisible People uses crowd sourcing to select the best stories and interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2024, the company expanded beyond just helping employers with interviews and assessments by introducing a new platform, CodeSignal Learn, which gives tech workers the ability to acquire new technical skills and keep up with industry needs. Smalt also boosted average revenue for workers, up 20% compared to 2023.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. And during breaks from sessions, did a lot of media interviews. Teaching in an international context. No wonder I am still tired! It always helps me improve practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week I facilitated a workshop at the Kellogg Action Lab's College of Consultants Convening. These folks are experts in strategic planning, financial management, facilitation, board development, fundraising - virtually all levels of nonprofit operation and capacity building. tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). Human-size.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. Newspaper columnists and talk show hosts called for interviews after reading our poignant op-ed pieces. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus! All You Need is Love.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve all heard the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” Have you ever tried? Greg’s passion is evident throughout the interview as he explains the concept of engagement fundraising and why it is so crucial. It’s a myth. You sure can! It pays to look for yourself, to ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

I plan on participating in a small group session called "Gender and Blogging" facilitated by Sopheap Chak. (I She teaches communications law and cyberlaw, and writes frequently about these subjects on her blog and in published articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. Here's a few points that I picked up that I will integrate into the next time I do this: Integrating social media into your instructional practice will change how your teach. I like webinar software that facilitates learning between participants).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. As much as I could, if I got asked a question, I invited the younger folks in the room to answer and facilitated an inter-generational dialog. This week I put that into practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

deLaskis book draws on a decade of design-thinking research from the nonprofit Education Design Lab as well as 150 interviews of educational experts, college and career counselors, teachers, employers, and learners. One college, Northeastern University, which does this well, has 250 internship facilitators.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the popularity of online experiences and the abundance of software to help facilitate them, this article can even help you recruit volunteers in a post-COVID-19 world. For some of your opportunities, you might need to interview or screen a volunteer before they can participate. Take your onboarding online.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid?

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. The list goes on and on, depending on what you're trying to accomplish (and who your audience is!).

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

For instance, a visually impaired learner should be able to navigate the LMS as easily as any other user, facilitating an equitable learning experience for all. Employing methods like surveys, interviews, and usability testing helps tailor the LMS to meet specific user demands. Start your free trial with Gyrus now!

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

For instance, a visually impaired learner should be able to navigate the LMS as easily as any other user, facilitating an equitable learning experience for all. Employing methods like surveys, interviews, and usability testing helps tailor the LMS to meet specific user demands. Start your free trial with Gyrus now!

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

For instance, a visually impaired learner should be able to navigate the LMS as easily as any other user, facilitating an equitable learning experience for all. Employing methods like surveys, interviews, and usability testing helps tailor the LMS to meet specific user demands. Start your free trial with Gyrus now!

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall. DeeAnn was kind enough to do an e-interview with me: Describe what Up with People does and a little about the work you do with them. While in D.C.,

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Michael Stein has an interview with Jonathan Coleman about his success building a donor base on Facebook. It's a platform that facilitates in-kind contributions of services. Which one worked best? Shiny Object Syndrome.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

You might also consider the interview format, where you invite a new expert to appear on each episode. Here are a few tips to follow to facilitate a smooth recording session: Warm up. She travels internationally to teach nonprofit professionals the tools they need to elevate their impact through events. Record your podcast.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Facilitate virtual meetups, book clubs, and happy hours with special guests, like No Vet Alone is doing. – Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. Shortage of medical supplies and resources.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Finally, help users feel a sense of ownership over the site by asking for their feedback through satisfaction surveys, interviews, feedback forms, and usability testing. Usually, we recommend full-time until the site becomes more self-sustaining.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Its so powerful I wanted to pass it along. • Do something that you are afraid to do. • Take a personal risk.

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