At this year's Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called "Digital Strategies for Community Foundations." The backdrop is a movement to create "Community News Leadership 2.0" and community foundations are big players in this ecosystem. I got to hear an overview of the ecosystem work that Community Foundation for … [Read more...]
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Social Media and Grantmaking Session at Council on Foundation's Conference
Council on Foundations ROI Panel View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I participated on a panel called Face, Tweet, Link - Socia Media, Grantmaking & A True Social ROI. Laura Elfurd, Vice President and Chief Community Investment Officer at ZeroDivide moderated a panel that included Stephen Downs, Assistant VP, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Alexandra Mitchell and Jeff Pryor from Pathfinder Solutions, and Kathy Reich, Program Officer, Organizational Effectiveness & … [Read more...]
Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time
Note from Beth: Peter Panepento wrote a thoughtful piece earlier this week about #givedaylessons and gave me permission to republish it here. Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called "The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story." Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time - Guest Post by Peter Panepento Community foundations across the country have been promoting local giving days to motivate people to support nearby charities, … [Read more...]
Using Design Thinking to ReThink Our Nonprofit or Community Foundation Work
Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff's terrific overview post here) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.) The intent was to provide a deep … [Read more...]
10 lessons for Giving Days, and one question: How can we make them more sustainable?
Note for Beth: Most of my work over the last twenty years in nonprofit technology has been focused on designing and facilitating capacity building projects, specifically training and peer learning projects that help participants successfully learn and apply skills using online technology, social media, networks, measurement, training design or other topic. The idea around peer learning groups is that participants learn skills that they assimilate as part of their ongoing practice. Over the … [Read more...]