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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. Before the Session.

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Nonprofit Board Dynamics: A Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Assign roles that play to each member’s strengths and facilitate open, continuous communication. Establish accountability by setting explicit performance expectations and regularly reviewing individual contributions to ensure everyone effectively fulfills their roles.

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Mastering The Art Of Idea Generation And Sharing

Bloomerang

Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. Define roles for each participant. Today, Claire will be the facilitator. In this role she will… Today, Cynthia will be the recorder. In this role she will… Today, everyone else will be an idea generator and sharer.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups. Committees tend to be smaller groups of selected representatives who review and decide on grants.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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Revelio Labs’ 2023 report on the state of DEI and the impact of last year’s layoffs, found that DEI-focused roles “experienced a nearly 40% churn rate at companies engaged in layoffs, as compared to about 24% for non-DEI roles.” An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight.

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17 Tips To Create An Outstanding Board Development Retreat

Bloomerang

Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! Prepare the board The last thing you want to do at a retreat is spend half the time reading and reviewing material. The best facilitators are objective, providing a fresh vibe for the day with new insights and perspectives.

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Anatomy of a successful capital campaign committee meeting

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The nature of capital campaign committee structures. After all, a capital campaign can involve wildly different tasks—ranging from reviewing big-picture development progress down to choosing a color scheme for your public phase marketing materials. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.