Note from Beth: Last year, 30% of the $5 billion crowdfunded went to social causes according the "Cracking the Crowd Funding Code". Nonprofit's use of crowdfunding is growing at an exponential rate with many nonprofits jumping on the crowfunding bandwagon attracted by the potential of finding new supporters. Robert Wu offers a great set of best practices in this guest post below. As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference
March was the "Iron Woman Multi-Conferencethon" for me and I'm just catching up. In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session: Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Keynote: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data - I … [Read more...]
Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits
Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute, and a Jedi Master. The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. The curriculum was based on their “Innovating for Peopledesign methods recipe book and "taxonomy for … [Read more...]
