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February 16, 2012, 5:04 pm

Charities Offered Chance to Win an Interactive Training Simulation

By Nicole Wallace

Screenshot from WILL Interactive simulation

WILL Interactive creates training movies designed to help people make better decisions. The company created this simulation on diversity and resolving conflicts for the Anti-Defamation League. (Image provided by WILL Interactive)

A Maryland company that develops interactive training simulations is holding a competition to put its technology to work for social change.

In the training movies that WILL Interactive creates, the viewer becomes one of the characters, and how the story progresses depends on the answers people give to frequent questions. The goal is to help viewers make better decisions when confronted with similar problems in real life.

Among the projects the company has worked on: a simulation that the U.S. Army uses in its effort to prevent suicide.

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February 16, 2012, 4:55 pm

Nonprofit Innovation: a Free Webcast

By Nicole Wallace

The Taproot Foundation is holding a free Webcast on innovation in the nonprofit world. Scheduled for Wednesday, February 22, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, the panel discussion will feature:

• Peter Sims, author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries

• Pete York, chief research and learning officer at TCC Group

• Laura Weiss, vice president for service innovation at Taproot

Aaron Hurst, Taproot’s founder, promises it will be a thought-provoking, grounded discussion. He says of the speakers: “Unlike many innovation peddlers, they each bring a pragmatism and humility to their work that is refreshing.”

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