#thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath. Through an impact-producing grant from the Polk Bros Foundation, we’re helping these local organizations raise awareness of their work and mature their online … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
Record-breaking donations on Give to the Max Day in Minnesota
GiveMN launched its "Give to the Max Day" over 6 years ago. It was one of the first 24-hour day of giving that rallies and inspires to donate to charities. On November 13, Minnesotans broke a record Thursday, donating more than $18 million to schools and non-profits. I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. This year, I was lucky enough to get Dana Nelson, Executive Director to do an email interview. GiveMN … [Read more...]
Give Miami Day raises record $5.2 million for nonprofits
Note from Beth: It's Giving Day Season! I'm working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as … [Read more...]
Understanding the New Power of the Collaborative Economy for Social Good Sector
My colleague, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans have just published an important piece over on the Harvard Business School blog called "Understanding the New Power" that gives us a great high level analysis of how collaborative economy is operating in the social good sector. The piece talks about how the growing tension between: old power and new power are transforming the way that social good activists do their work. The article lays out a framework for understanding how power works and how … [Read more...]
Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd
Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that … [Read more...]
