Last month, I was honored to co-teach a master class and workshops on digital strategy and crowdfunding with Cambodia colleague, Tharum Bun, at the first IFCAsia in Bangkok. I learned so much about the digital challenges facing Asian NGOs, how these are similar or different from NGOs in other regions, met and connect with amazing people, and was inspired by the speakers I heard and the workshops I took for my own learning. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2017
Does Your Nonprofit Suffer from Fire Drill Culture?
Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the "World Cafe" method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them. They capture their discussion by taking notes on the "tablecloths," (in this … [Read more...]
An Ingenious Texting Bot from @SFMOMA
As we enter the age of automation, more and more nonprofits are using bots. If bots are designed well, they can have impact. The San Francisco Museum of Art recently launched an ingenious bot called "Send Me" that allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. This is not the first art museum bot, as MOMA launched a bot on Twitter that shares art in 2014 and there are a number of museums that have used Facebook … [Read more...]
Turning Empathy Inward at Nonprofit Organizations
In my book with Aliza Sherman, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout, we offer a framework for practicing self-care and creating a culture of well-being in the nonprofit workplace. The book looks at our relationships with ourselves, other people, careers and money, our environment, and technology—and shows how our relationships with people in our workplaces heavily influence our well-being. Since the launch of our book, I’ve been teaching workshops for nonprofits on … [Read more...]
Creating A Global Network of Capacity Builders for Social Change
I've always benefited from learning from colleagues who do nonprofit technology training and capacity but often we come from the same perspective. I've always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as "learning from adjacent practices." This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory, … [Read more...]
