Networked NGO View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This year my birthday (Jan. 11) was very special indeed and not only because the date had all ones: 1-11-11. But, I'll get to birthday fun in a minute. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.  The presentation was an opportunity to share some insights about working internationally and from sharing the ideas from the book  … [Read more...]

Note from Beth: If you've been following my blog lately, you know I've been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance.   On Twitter, I asked Marnie for examples of abundance approaches in the nonprofit and she answered in her blog.    Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work?    She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we've got to change the "I'll do it" as the default organizational … [Read more...]

Is that a Zen graffiti artist?   Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter "e"?    Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn't it give them more time to breathe?   Trying to do everything, a scarcity model,  is such an exhausting way to work. Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result.   Marnie points out that … [Read more...]