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

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A 2024 survey report by Independent Sector and Edelman finds that 57% of the public trust nonprofits to do the right thing. Designing engaging and effective learning experiences. The reports authors suggest youth-led, youth-centered programs could increase impact for both the participants and the communities they serve.

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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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Designing engaging and effective learning experiences 

Candid

In this article, I’ll explore how nonprofits can utilize Instructional Design principles to develop training that engages, empowers, and educates both colleagues and external stakeholders. What is Instructional Design? You can also conduct a training inventory to identify existing resources that can be repurposed.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

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Peer Learning As A Prelude to Collective Action for Social Change: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. I’ve found that adding this constraint to group report outs avoids getting bogged down with long report outs. The report out was a competition.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this example, people worked in small groups to brainstorm questions and then placed them on the wall in different categories identified through the participant interviews/surveys ahead of the meeting. The full group report out facilitated discussion and refinement of the ideas.