It has been a year since I've relocated to the Bay Area in California. The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Annual Nonprofit Bootcamp practically in my backyard. The next one takes place on August 14th - I wouldn't miss it . Last year, I was honored to be a workshop leader at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp, but was even better is that the sessions on the program were really good and I learned a lot. I'll … [Read more...]
America's Giving Challenge 2009 Assessment and Reflection Paper
Allison Fine and I, along with my Zoetica colleague Geoff Livingston have completed the assessment and reflection paper for 2009 America’s Giving Challenge for the Case Foundation. This is Case Foundation's second online competition that encouraged people to leverage their social networks to raise money and awareness and recruit supporters for the causes they care about most. Allison Fine and I wrote the reflection paper for the first challenge. This year we took a more intercative approach … [Read more...]
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman, I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky's virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. I received a review copy of the book and was invited to write a post about it. We were lucky enough to have Clay read a copy of manuscript last November and he was one of our book blurbers. Here's what he said about the … [Read more...]
How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?
Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Robert J. Rosenthal, Director of Communications for VolunteerMatch was a participant. He offered to write a guest post. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. I left inspired, yet I also felt there is still a lot of work we need to do to help our peers … [Read more...]
Social Media Lab: How To Become A Networked Nonprofit
Social Media Lab: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter. As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice. One of the themes in the book, The Networked Nonprofit, is the importance of doing … [Read more...]
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