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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Next week, I'm headed to Seattle for a couple of "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" book events generously sponsored by Microsoft.    I'm very excited to participate in one of the evening events, a curated discussion on Data, Transparency, and Impact with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash) and moderated by: Erica Mills, Claxon Marketing. (The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it)   They are crowdsourcing questions for the … [Read more...]