Note from Beth:  I've been working in the nonprofit technology sector since 1990 and there was an old saying, "It isn't a matter if the technology fail, it is a matter when and what your Plan B is."    We always had some sort of back up plan.  For Giving Days,  having a solid crisis plan in place for the technology, weather, or an act of god is an essential best practice. Colorado Gives has hosted six gives days and has over $111 million dollars for Colorado nonprofits.  They are not using the … [Read more...]

What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I've been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees, all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. The activities for this community of practice included regular conference calls primarily for the cohort, webinars for a broader audience of community foundations, and an online safe space open to any community foundation hosting a giving day to share … [Read more...]

After I attended Catalyzing the Sharing Economy conference (the sharing economy is defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services), I shared a post with some notes and ideas about why I think it is the next generation of networked social change.   Lucy Bernholz, who has been thinking about the sharing economy and social change for longer than anyone, share her conference notes, asking "Where is the Public Good?"   TechSoup's Lewis Haidt shared a post … [Read more...]