GivingTuesday,  a day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season that celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations, will take place exactly 28 days or four more Tuesdays from today.   GivingTuesday is building on the success of its first year -- moving from an grassroots-style event organized on a short time schedule to a global charity movement.      Here's some indicators of the movement's growing success: Many Partners: GivingTuesday does not … [Read more...]

#GivingTuesday is a day of giving where of thousands of organizations and individuals (including me) come together to give and call attention to giving, volunteering, and infecting others.   In its first year, #GivingTuesday,  a national effort initiated by the 92ndY and the U.N. Foundation produced these results as documented by Edelman.   In the lead-up to the December 3rd event, the question of how to extend a day of giving into a giving season?   Alison Fine, my Networked Nonprofit … [Read more...]

Note from 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.  You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do … [Read more...]