Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I'm running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. These peer learning groups are focused on transformational change - to help participants transform into data-informed nonprofits one small step at a time. The CWRF model has been adopted by nonprofits. I spoke to a group of nonprofit … [Read more...]
Why Data Informed VS Data Driven?
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide. One of the questions I was asked, "Why Data Informed? Why Not Data-Driven?" In our book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit",' KD Paine and I explain how being data-informed is something very different from a data-driven culture. The term “data-driven” has been used to describe organizations that rely solely on cold hard data to make decisions. Being data-driven sounds … [Read more...]
Can You Measure Love?
Happy Generosity Day! The idea of moving Valentine’s Day away from dinner reservations and singles awareness towards a day of generous acts began in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Network for Good's Katya Andresen. The premise is simple. Today, think about you can be generous and then…just…be generous. [slideshare id=16530292&doc=measurementwebinar-feb13bethkanterfinal-130214103651-phpapp01] My way of being generous is to share and facilitate sharing of knowledge … [Read more...]
#kantersea: Data, Transparency, and Measurement In Seattle
Fist bumps to @msftcitizenship for hosting #KanterSEA! And look, I'm rocking my #Surface to live tweet. Woot! twitter.com/sldoolittle/st… — Shanon Doolittle (@sldoolittle) February 11, 2013 I'm in Seattle for a couple days doing a round of "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," events to talk about measurement, data, and impact, generously sponsored by Microsoft. I started the day with a "Beth, Book, and Bagels" event hosted by Pyramid Communications, followed by a lunch talk at the Microsoft … [Read more...]
Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving
Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," co-authored with KD Paine. I'm doing a session for the NW Philanthropy and have been asked to talk a little about how to design peer learning and trainings for nonprofits. Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping … [Read more...]
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