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April is National Volunteer Month. Do you know where your volunteers are? 

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Nonprofits can maximize participation by encouraging potential volunteers to take advantage of paid volunteer time off, asking for skills-based volunteers, and helping connect companies to local communities. Designing engaging and effective learning experiences. How can nonprofits improve volunteer engagement and retention?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Best AI Tools for Creating Training Materials in Corporate Learning

Gyrus

For Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, instructional designers, and HR teams, AI tools are transforming the creation of videos, graphics, and voiceovers, making it easier than ever to deliver high-quality training materials at scale. is an AI voiceover platform that transforms text into speech using human-like voices.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 10: Leverage the momentum of a local or national Giving Day.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The commonality was that everyone was working on Women’s Rights and Social Justice, although from different local contexts and different types of programs. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. One might think, oh no, this is impossible.