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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. Essentially, design thinking process teaches how to be iterative.

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The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. This is more a mind shift than anything else. A mature employee knows how to manage up.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

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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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

First thing in the morning here for me, I know it’s afternoon for you, but do you mind kind of reading the chat box as we go? So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. It’s a good group. Julie: I’m going to ask you. Steven: Yes.