 I'm going to go ahead and turn this over to Greg. Have a great webinar everybody. Okay. Well, I love the title of this webinar because it addresses change makers and I think there's nothing better than actually bringing about positive change. So I love the title and the fact that we can offer courses to help all of you that are change makers, you know, make it happen. So let me go and, you know, tell you, you know, there's, you know, a few things here about housekeeping, but since I'm starting this off, usually there's somebody else that, you know, helped me, but today we, we're juggling a couple of other live courses. So I'll do it myself. And so about how to engage, there's going to be some questions and you can use a Q&A feature in Zoom and you can also, you know, correspond and make sure that you do interact in whichever ways you see, you know, fit for yourselves and close caption is available for those that need it. So a little bit later, we're going to have Shuiya and Sabah Merch and Shuiya Shuiya and Sabah Merch and join us. They are, you know, true experts at that, you know, what they do. Shuiya is a PhD in instructional design, you know, I can say it, you know, because she's a little bit shy. I see they didn't import her sheet and they put the title, but not her degree. She's a true expert at instructional design. You're going to see that reflected in this presentation of the things, you know, how we measure things and how we build the courses and so forth. And Sabah has a lot of experience in managing operations. We're really happy to have her. We're going to go through, you know, the, you know, the introduction to textbook courses and how do we, you know, produce collaborative training and why do we do it the way we do it, as well as, you know, how do we measure the success of what we do and then we'll show you the upcoming, you know, topics and we'll have a few minutes for any questions that remain. So I'll go through the introduction of the, you know, textbook courses program, which has been around for some time now and it's focused on, you know, digital transformation, making nonprofits resilient. And then sometimes you need, you know, support, because TechSoup offers a lot of technology, but sometimes you need training and support, you know, to be able to use that technology efficiently and effectively. And so to be resilient, especially, you know, in light of, you know, a lot of the changes that take place, sometimes, you know, natural disasters that take place. I mean, there's all kinds of things that affect nonprofits and we all need nonprofits to be resilient. So that's, you know, the focus of what we do. We're going to have a little poll that was planned here. There it is, you know, popping up. So if you can answer the questions you have taken in TechSoup course, and I can see that there's a few people that have, I'm surprised, you know, there's quite a few people that have, that's great. And for those that don't, you know, this is a great opportunity to actually, let's stop sharing that because you see the results. And hello. Oh, oh, I've popped up. And so TechSoup courses, you know, has been around, you know, since 2017. At that time, they had very few courses. I joined TechSoup in 2019, and we still had quite a few courses. Since then, we had a huge growth. We have over 200 courses to choose from. And from the 5,000 people that we have in 2019, we're now up to over 84,000 learners that have taken courses from TechSoup. So a large number of people and taking a large number of very useful courses, all of which are created and contextualized for nonprofits. So, and that makes a huge difference. So what do we offer? We offer, we have live events, which, you know, we do on a regular basis as a structure, such as, you know, the, you know, as the expert, which you can, you know, spend an hour asking questions of an expert, or we have seminars and webinars. We have on-demand training, which you can take any time you want. So these are courses that you can actually access at will and take the training. You know, we embed a lot of examples and exercises and things. So you're interacting with the course, but you're on your own, you know, accessing whatever you want. Workshops, we have done, you know, quite a few workshops live or online. Microlearnings is because we have some videos and guides and manuals that you can access. And then blended, you know, programs, which are, you know, very, very successful and people really like some of our, you know, blended courses, you know, meaning quite blended that they have a combination of online activities and live sessions with an instructor. And we'll tell you more about those. Those are some that are really, really exciting. We have large coverage of topics, as you can see, covering everything from, you know, technology planning to strategizing, to project management. We have grant writing, you know, all kinds of things, email marketing, social media marketing. So, you know, a large number of topics. So what I'm pointing out to you is go to our catalog and we'll give you the address later and take a look and see. And it is a long scroll down because it's 200 in some courses, but you'll find not only things that might be useful to you, but also things that are incredibly affordable and some even free. So you can look through our catalog and see. The online blended training format, we're going to address it here. And I see that Shuya and Sabah are both and so I'm going to give them a chance to say hello and join us and take over their parts whenever they're ready. So Sabah and Shuya, want to say hello. Hi, everyone. Hello, everyone. So Shuya, do you want to take this, you know, on from this part? Yeah, sure, I can. Thank you, Gray. Sorry, everyone asked. Sabah and I are a little bit late because we just came from one of our blended course sessions. So for this type of training that we are offering, it usually lasts for four to eight weeks. Most typical length is six weeks for us. So we have instructor-led online live sessions and also on demand learning content for you to finish outside of the live sessions. It's usually designed with the project in mind throughout the course. So after six weeks or eight weeks, you'll be able to finish a bigger project. And the project is usually broken down into smaller pieces, smaller tasks for you to complete each week. And those are accompanied with worksheets and hand-handouts for you to make actions easier. In these courses, we are working with very experienced non-profit experts who have very rich experience in their subject area, also a lot of experience teaching online. So they are able to engage the learners, engage the audience during the session, and also in the discussion forum, as you can see from the engagement methods here. So even if you have some questions or want to share your work after the live session, you can do that in the discussion forum. It's a great place to share work with others. And we also see a lot of interactions between the learners and even networking happening between the learners in our community of practice. Next slide, please. So we're using a process called ADDI to develop our training. It's usually, it's based on an analysis of who our learners are, what your need might be, and what your preferences might be for this topic area. And so then we design our instructions and materials based on that and develop everything and put them onto our learning platform and launch the course. And also at the end of the instructions, we will have evaluations to see how the learning was going on, how the outcome was. So we aim at behavior change. And that's, I think we will have a little bit more information for our aim at behavior change and long-term impact in the following slide. Yeah. So before diving into how we develop the training and how we measure the effectiveness of our training, I would like to show you two examples of the blended learning courses. Great. Could you let me share my screen? Sure. So I can show you, show them our platform. So the first one is called AI for Good, How to Get Started with AI for Nonprofits. That just happened a couple of months ago. The AI technology is emerging this year and from last year, actually. So we feel the nonprofit audience needs some navigation through this rapid change. And we're lucky to have two experts from Roundtable Technology to teach this course to our nonprofit audience. This is a six-week course. The topic covered in this course ranges from how you understand the AI, how to utilize it, how to engineer, create the prompts for you to get results from the general AI. And there's also a lot of examples of real-world application of different AI tools. One special thing about this course is the instructors have invited quite a few guest experts in the field who are either developer, I think most of them are developer of AI tools to share their insights into the AI world and also show the reward applications. And there's also discussions about organizational policies regarding AI risks and other considerations. And it ended with a very exciting SHARP tank. The so-called SHARP tank is kind of a workshop where everyone creates their own pitch deck of how to implement a tangible small AI project in their organization and get feedback from their peers. So for each week, for example, for week one, there is usually a warm-up discussion happening before the live session. And after you start thinking about something on this week's topic, you go to the live session. In the live session, you'll hear the presentations from the instructors about the content and also a lot of interactions and discussions about some practical questions. And for week one, there's assignments like practice activities for you to start. The first step is to sign up for those tools, of course, so you can start using them. And so the second activity is actually a part of the bigger project. You identify the problems you would like to solve with AI tools. This is a kind of brainstorm. So you can later pick one and think about how to actually implement it and then develop it into a pitch deck like you would put like an elevator pitch where you introduce the project in five minutes to others and get feedback. Also, there are places for you to ask questions and resources, additional resources if you would like to take the learning to a more in-depth. So this is week one and then similar for the other weeks. And very likely we may offer this course again in the coming year because the AI world is changing very fast. So if you are interested, you can stay tuned for that. And the second example I would like to show you is the one that is running now, the one that we just came from. It's data analytics for non-profit staff, how to leverage your data for action. And this course we're working with a data expert from Netherlands, Marie from Digital Power Data Hub. So this course is about how to think of the whole data process for your organization and implement it for the measurement you would like to have. So it's also a six-week course. You start, you will go through the home data approach called decal methodology. Decal means define, collect, analyze, and then leverage. So each week you'll go through one step of that process and you'll have some activities or worksheets for you to complete so you finish the whole planning process one step at a time. For this week we are in week one as an introduction to the whole course and the whole process and people start with look at the key questions for their organization. And also, so after the session the learners will start the first step of defining in the worksheet. So this is the worksheet that you can download and work on there are different columns representing each step. Define and define KPIs will be the first step for week one and two and you'll go all the way to the end leverage. And we also have some pre-session preparation work to do like for example for week two. Before week two the learners will watch some video instructions and do small practices beforehand so they can bring that to the live session for discussion. We also have the discussion forum for people to share their work or ask any questions also additional resources for the learning. So this is the two examples I want to share and I would like to go back to the slides. So a great you want to share again or should I go on with my slide? Go ahead and go with yours if you're steering you know that's fine. If you prefer me to steer that's good as well. I have it open so I'll take it from there. Go ahead. Change a desktop. So about the effectiveness and benefits of this type of learning that we are offering I would like to share that we are receiving a lot of good feedback from all our learners. They find it very helpful useful and engaging. We that our aim is to not only help our learners feel you have learned something during the training but also after the training even months after that you'll be able to remember what you have learned and be able to really apply that to your work and have see some long-term impact. That is we keep that in mind when we design the instructions and also when we evaluate the learning outcome we design our approach around that aim. For all our courses we are doing the traditional course evaluations see how you are satisfied with it and how much you have learned and for selected courses we are also doing a more extensive evaluation called Kirkpatrick evaluation that requires follow up after a few months or even a couple of years to see how people are applying everything and is there any more bigger broader benefits seen by the organizations. So this Kirkpatrick framework aims at the more lower level of immediate reaction to our course their learning experience in the course and also how much they have learned right after the course and then level three and level four behavior change and the organizational results are the long-term evaluation long-term follow up follow up that I was just talking about. So this is data for all our blended learning courses since 2021 so we're seeing in terms of the reaction the satisfaction to our experience people feel most people feel that the training was worth their time and they liked the structure and format course and they felt the training activities were engaging. So we have two additional questions are how useful will this course be to your work and the rating is pretty good 2.57 out of three so people are feeling this is pretty useful and they are very inclined to recommend the course to their colleague the rating is 4.2 a 22 out of five and at level two learning outcomes how much they have learned out of the training we are measuring the their confidence level for each learning objectives before and after the course so a comparison of each individual learners of their pre and post course ratings of one learning objectives the average is they have improved from I can do this but need help to I can do this on my own or some are feeling I'm really good at doing this so this means that our course are able to help them achieve the things they want to learn and at level three behavior and level four organizational results we are we haven't done the event that that's follow-up evaluation for our blended courses but we have done that for our own demand self-paced on demand course so this is an example from one of the on-demand courses that we evaluated we this that's for the Excel course series we add I think it's after one year after people have taken the course we followed up with them through survey and interviews and asked them um do do they see any change of their work in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and is there any change in their use of using in their use of the excel software and we are seeing quite positive results even after a year people remember what they've learned and they are actually using that and this this is some additional comments regarding the changes they see so they are seeing using the tool every day being hands-on and I think more interestingly prompt a curiosity for them to pursue further learning and they would like to go deeper into into this topic area so um with that I think this is for Sabah so I'll hand over to Sabah for topics covered thank you uh Shuyu are you going to share your screen or you want me to share one you are muted Shuyu what do you prefer you can you can just continue we have a few more minutes left if that's okay my screen has been acting a little funny today as you saw previously all right so our topics uh as Shuyu shared earlier we've had uh we've talked to you a little about our AI for good course and our data analytics course but besides those we ran some other interesting courses as well and some of those topics were around cyber security and data privacy uh nonprofit website strategy social media marketing becoming a tech forward fundraiser and choosing the right tech for nonprofits and we have a few more planned for the rest of the year as well I'll share those topics uh in the next few slides can we go to the next slide please all right so uh we talked a little about the data analytics course today was the first session it was just an introductory session uh it happened just an hour before uh this meeting started so that's where Shuyu and I were and I think Shuyu has talked quite a lot already about the course I just want to put it up here as to what you're going to learn from the course and um in the chat as well I put in the link in case you're interested to join the course we do have a hundred dollar discount running especially for attendees of this webinar that's going on right now so if you are interested it's not too late it's easy to catch up on the session because the sessions are recorded and we will share we share the recording with uh all the participants so you can catch up on the recording um and if you'd like to join uh over to the next slide our next course uh that we have coming up Shuyu over to the next slide please yeah think like a designer this is the course which uh we're going to be using some of um adobe tools uh in this course and our expert uh Kara is the one that has also worked with us and developed some of the other on-demand courses for adobe so here uh often times uh you know we work in nonprofits that are fairly small in size and we're all playing multiple roles and uh this course I think helps with that because oftentimes we find ourselves uh designing communication for our organization and there are certain design principles that you might be uh that one must keep in mind when designing these communications and how is it that you can use uh some of the adobe products that are easily available to everyone to uh come up with you know a design that is appealing and that catches your audience uh is I so this is what we're going to be talking about in the course and um that starts on August 16th again there is a hundred dollar discount for that course as well um I saw someone message in the chat about the AI course and uh yes we can uh we don't have dates yet so but whenever we do we can post it on our special offers tab and you can see where when that's going to be available over to the next slide after after this course we have a um a course which is coming up on technology strategy the exports on this course are the same uh that ran our AI course so definitely a course that we highly recommend you join in case you're part of the tech team within your organization or if you are uh thinking about uh thinking about that you're already in the planning stage some some of the nonprofits are already in the planning stage for that for uh the coming fiscal so you're going to equip yourself with tools to ensure that there's alignment between technology and what the mission of your organization now what do you currently have uh what are the strengths and weaknesses and how do you use uh technology to be able to take your nonprofit to the next level so this course starts on September 12th and we have a hundred dollar discount running for that and our next course is around uh Asana and uh we're going to use Asana to help nonprofits with the project management practices and how you can take projects and programs to the next level and we're going to be discussing how Asana specifically can help with that and there are features in Asana that one can use and how you can practice with our experts using all of those features and flows and you know planning your project and structuring your team all of that can be done within Asana so basically if you are someone that collaborates a lot within the organization or outside of the organization even with volunteers this is a course that you will definitely find helpful and this course starts on September 14th it's a five week course not a six week course it's a five week course and again you can use the hundred dollars off for this course so we hope to see you in all of our programs or at least one or two of them over to the next slide and we shared with you some of the courses that we are already planning already in the works we'd love to hear from you what topics you'd be interested in Aritha if you can launch our Zoom poll and you can select all of the topics that apply Aritha could you launch our poll please you know what I'm so sorry I I had the wrong one that's why I launched another poll so I didn't get this one guys you guys know what it's you can put it in chat or you can just yeah just put it in chat and we'll pick it up from there I know quite a few are interested in AI already and we'd love to hear from you if you're interested in other courses as well or if you see a topic that interests you and is not mentioned here you're welcome to put that as well in chat so I saw someone putting AI about data as well and yeah I did put the question on the poll so I mean on the survey so when they close the window the survey will pop up great ooh nice AI I see social media marketing fundraising technology yes that's quite something website development yes we do have some website development we do have some on-demand courses and for project management as well we do have some on-demand courses so these are not live six-week trainings but these are mostly an hour to our trainings already on our catalog and then yes of course when we offer these six-week workshops as well you can come for that actually for project management we will be having our six-week course coming up if I'm not wrong in October and so that's also I think body on our catalog listing so you are welcome to enrol in that as well that is that does also have a hundred dollar off running right now fundraising technology how to use volunteers and students yeah that's quite an interesting topic AI for non-profits building an LLM accessibility and inclusion via tech ooh that's a nice one accessibility and inclusion via tech yes large language model yeah all right thank you guys thank you for the input this is great I see something in okay I think somebody put it in Q&A as well some of the topics thank you for doing that Google analytics yes we we have some courses which are on-demand courses on Google analytics we're hoping we can either update those or offer like a 300 level course I think that will be a good topic to have as well thank you for your input everyone appreciate it lastly I'd like to talk about group enrolment so if any of you have a larger team that wants to come for any of our courses if it's the on-demand or our 300 level courses feel free to reach out to us at learn at TechSoup.org and we will work out a group discount for you if even if you have three people or more coming in I'm happy to extend a discount to everyone and just so you know we've done really large enrolments as well like up to 130 140 staff members enrolling in courses we can help with all of that the advantage is that you can plan it out in a way where a certain group or a certain team takes a certain set of courses at a particular time and then comes back to discuss how they could leverage the learnings of that course within their team so that's one way of doing it the other is just you know providing incentive and having your team members you know update their skills any kind of learning never goes waste so yes then it also gives you flexibility in terms of on-demand courses because you can take them at your own time and at your own pace and you're not set within a certain time period to be able to take it usually these courses are you know available for you to watch for a year or more until like the content is no longer valid anymore relevant anymore so that's that's kind of in terms of flexibility and convenience of being able to take it at your own time and pace and we have over 200 courses as Gray had shared initially so there are various topics you know that are very relevant to non-profit staff and volunteers and you're welcome to choose from any of those topics and the good thing is that at the end of the course you do get a course completion certificate so say for example I am you know part of the HR team for a non-profit I'd like a certain team to have a certain skill set let's say itself we you can tell your team members to go ahead and sign up for these courses or if you have maybe five or more reach out to us and we'll help you with that have them go through the course and at the end of the course they get a course completion certificate now is it our courses are not the one that you just keep clicking and keep progressing there are assignments built in you know we check your understanding there are activities in some of the courses that you do so so you know that they're going through the course and at the end of it they get a certificate which then they can submit to me as the HR person so I know that they've completed the course and have an understanding of the course so that's how our courses are built and so you can reach out to our team if you need any sort of help with any courses you know for group enrollments should you move on to the next slide Sabha before we wrap up I wanted to mention that we are in the process of publishing the Google ad grants guide so it's not all courses sometimes we have nice little tools like the guide and in many nonprofits don't realize that they can get up to ten thousand dollars a year's worth of Google advertising so they can get the guide and see if they qualify and if you do it's worth ten thousand bucks for your nonprofit and worth of advertising in Google so I would encourage you to look at that guide and see if your nonprofit you know qualifies there's a few things you need to do with your website for your nonprofit yeah so you can just share my screen for a moment I'd like to show where this is available and just share my screen for a moment that's that's a really nice take home you know yeah so this is basically our catalog this is our course offerings and if you see any special offers and events that's where you'll see all of our upcoming courses and the offers that we have and the specific one that Gray was talking about which is Google ad grants course let me just show you this is the one it's our Google ad grants guide what are they and how to get there and this was I mean we literally just had this course available you know just yesterday actually so it's a very quick it's a free guide firstly so everyone should read it if you're interested in getting the Google ad grant it only takes 30 minutes and you know our our team our instructional design team has put together a very informative guide which covers what are these ad grants who can apply what are the requirements you need what are the steps you need to take before applying for these grants and how do you submit the grant application so definitely one that you should take we do have you know our video resources section your most most of our courses available here they are free of cost so at no cost to you you can look at these videos and read through these guides and get information on various topics like this a little bit about cyber security there's a little bit about remote team management there's about nonprofit website user experience so definitely a lot of nuggets of information that you can already get this is about data collection this is about you know designing designing communications so definitely something that you should explore and again this is on our catalog page and it's under video and resources and then we have the special offer staff as well so I think I see something in Q&A let me read that out questions so maybe you put the you know learn address again so they know how to contact us if they have any further questions after the this session and going forward especially if they want to have group enrollments and so forth so I can reach you just learn the text of the word no we can't hear you Saba so great go ahead and um pose us out okay great you're on mute okay so I'm not sure what happened to Saba we we lost her um so what I was uh telling her was to um to finish up with uh going to our our address that um learn that text of the word and I know that a lot of times are appearing as a guy but if you have any other questions after this session or about group enrollments about specific courses or topics whatever you you need just email this address and you know somebody in Saba's team will respond to you and with whatever question you have it could be about content topics and then and other things and we'd be glad to answer and I think with that we can wrap it up thank you everybody we'll see you next time bye bye thank you