I came across this wonderful quiz from Rich Harwood he developed for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (a notorious fortress!) The model highlights the difference between inward facing organizations and outward facing ones:
Certainly rings familiar to us folks who have been researching, writing, and talking for a few years on ways to help organizations transition [...]
How Fortressy Are We?
Lessons from KONY 2012
Had you ever heard of Joseph Kony before last week? Neither had I. But I had heard of viral videos, and the Kony 2012 video produced by Invisible Children is viral on steroids. Here are my thoughts as to what it means for activism.
The arc of how and why this video went viral is straightforward:
Fantastic [...]
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. Hurrah! I like celebrations, and I like women, and international is cool (although as a lifelong new Yorker I am biologically programmed to disdain other places, I will make an exception for the whole wide world.)
There has been a burst of euphoria lately about the surge of social media-fueled feminist [...]
Social Media Academy Lessons
The Avi Chai Foundation has just posted the final report Micah Sifry and I wrote about the social media academy they sponsored last year. Here is the blog post on the Avi Chai Foundation’s blog and where you can download the full report.
I’ve written about the Academy several times before here.
Here are the lessons learned [...]
What MBA Programs Don’t Teach You
This is a guest post written by Katherine Manning on a topic I’ve been thinking and writing about for a while; the inability and unwillingness of graduate schools to prepare students to lead in a networked world. Here’s how Kate describes herself, “Kate didn’t expect to find herself at the intersection of business, marketing, and [...]
2011 Online Giving
Blackbaud just released it’s 2011 Online Giving report, and as I have come to expect with Blackbaud’s reports, this one is chock full of interesting trends and tidbits.
For my data geek readers, the data come from, “… 24 months of online giving data from 1,895 nonprofit organizations, online major giving data from 2,397 nonprofits, and [...]
Take Back the Pink Reflections Roundup
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! [...]
Take Back the Pink Lessons Learned
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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"In The Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness the power of social media to pursue their missions in partnership with two billion connected citizens."
"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Far from a technical manual, it raises compelling issues that deserve consideration by all nonprofit organizations."
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The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Far from a technical manual, it raises compelling issues that deserve consideration by all nonprofit organizations."
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