For the past five years, I have been lucky enough to attend the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, an interdisciplinary conference that brings together leaders at the intersection of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business to share innovative ideas about social change. It is always an inspiring learning experience. This year, one of my favorite authors, Greg McKeown, who wrote Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, gave a talk about … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
A Few Really Useful and FREE Social Media Tips Sheets and Resources
Most of my work is as a trainer where I'm teaching workshops on leadership skills for emerging leaders, self-care, social media strategy, train the trainers, and networks/data. I am also an adjunct professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey, where I teach a course for graduate students on network strategy and networked leadership skills. A big part of teaching is curating resources which requires scanning through different sources, evaluating, and sharing the … [Read more...]
Self-Care for Social Changemakers: What I learned from Aisha Moore
As part of the research for our book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout, I have been following the various conversations threads about self-care, avoiding burnout, compassion fatigue, and work/life balance in the nonprofit and social change sectors. A colleague who I have worked with in the past, Aisha Moore, a health and social justice professional tweeted me from the Mindful Leadership Summit. Kismet! Aisha and I had worked together on a social media training project … [Read more...]
Walking During Board Retreats: A Few Tips
I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community. Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work, facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Board retreats, day long meetings, can be potentially be deadly -- sitting most of the time and hearing a parade of reports. However, this was far from it. Not only was the work on trying to figure out outcomes (and the measures) stimulating, we also … [Read more...]
#ThankYouWednesday After A Successful #GivingTuesday
Yesterday was the fourth Giving Tuesday, a global day of community-driven philanthropy. Today is ThankYouWednesday because it was a huge success, including financial with 52% increase in giving. And, because those of work in the social good sector know that giving is to become a habit or part of culture, it can't be transactional. We can't treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. We have give gratitude and thanks and build ongoing relationships. But let me reflect on how … [Read more...]
