Take Back the Pink Reflections Roundup

by on February 14, 2012 in Uncategorized

The above title isn’t mine, it’s Lucy Bernholz who has gathered up the posts we individually wrote about the Take Back the Pink effort and compiled them on her blog here.
Here are the posts:
 http://amysampleward.org/2012/02/14/observations-and-reflections-on-takebackthepink/

http://www.bethkanter.org/aar/

http://www.allisonfine.com/2012/02/13/take-back-the-pink-lessons-learned/

http://jewpoint0.org/2012/02/free-agents-insights-from-takebackthepink/

http://philanthropy.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-calls-for-transparency.html
I just love that each of us reflected on the effort through a totally different and unique lens! [...]

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Take Back the Pink Lessons Learned

Take Back the Pink Lessons Learned

by on February 13, 2012 in Uncategorized

Two weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that the Susan G. Komen Foundation had decided to de-fund breast health screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. Unless you’ve been on a faraway island, you’re probably aware of this!
I jumped into the scrum by creating an online fundraising effort called Komen Kan Kiss My Mammogram. It was quickly [...]

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The Power of Stories in Social Change

The Power of Stories in Social Change

by on February 9, 2012 in Uncategorized

This month’s Social Good podcast is on the power of storytelling and it introduces a brand new format. I blogged about the transition here. Basically, most organizations are struggling keeping up with the world – everything is changing so quickly, information is zooming all around the web, opinions are shifting quickly (hello, Komen!) and organizations [...]

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Komen Kan Kiss My Mammogram

Komen Kan Kiss My Mammogram

by on February 2, 2012 in Uncategorized

When news broke late Monday that Susan G. Komen defunded breast exams by Planned Parenthood affiliates I was stunned. Here is a good news story about what happened.
What? Is it possible that the two titans of women’s health were now at odds with one another.
My reaction was to start a conversation among friends like Amy [...]

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Study: Text Giving for Haiti

by on February 1, 2012 in Uncategorized

The Knight Foundation released a study, Real Time Charitable Giving, recently on the giving by text spearheaded in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Here is a news article about the use of text giving from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. More than $43 million was given by text immediately after the [...]

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Social Media Lessons from Leadership 18

by on January 25, 2012 in Uncategorized

I had the opportunity last week to speak at the annual gathering of Leadership 18, a membership group of the nation’s largest health and human service providers. Gloria Johnson-Cusack, the CEO of the organization, asked me to address the following question: Our members are dipping their toes into the social media waters; so what?
I asked [...]

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Network Weaving Personalities

Network Weaving Personalities

by on January 18, 2012 in Uncategorized

My friend, Lisa Colton, wrote  fascinating post on the personality of network weavers. Meyer-Briggs for network weavers, she called it. In the post Lisa asks a very provocative question: Do the different styles of network weavers (personality, skills, training, preferred tools, strategic objectives) produce different patterns of network maps?
I’ll start my answer on what we [...]

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My Dream of Abundance

by on January 17, 2012 in Uncategorized

Nancy Schwartz extended a kind invitation to me to join the first Blog Carnival of 2012. The topic this month is to share our dreams for causes, organizations or the nonprofit sector this year. What a great way to ease my way back into blogging in this new year (I’m still calling it the new [...]

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