One of my colleagues, Nada Hamzeh, a nonprofit capacity building consultant from Lebanon, tagged me when sharing this striking image that depicts how can easily develop a behavior addiction to our mobile phones. As Aliza Sherman and I wrote in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit the apps on our mobile phones can be agents of distraction, but they can also be agents of calm. When researching the book, we came up with a curated a list of our favorite technology wellness apps. But last week, I was … [Read more...]
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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy
Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. When he told me the name of his program, I got excited because I had done a lot of research and writing about "PhilanthroKids" and he mentioned he was inspired in part by that post. He has taken the idea and … [Read more...]
5 Ways Nonprofit Facebook Messenger Bots Can Deliver Impact
In my last post about nonprofit bots, I discussed the big picture of automation in the nonprofit space and what I learned from the "The Beth Bot" experiment. For this post, I did a landscape scan to identify some of the best examples of nonprofit bots. (These examples use Facebook Messenger, but bots be deployed other platforms or apps.) What is a Chat Bot? Why Use One? More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger, to contact nonprofits with … [Read more...]
Nonprofits in the Autonomous World: Will the Bots Take Over?
What is the “autonomous world?” As Jeremiah Owyang, founder of Crowd Companies, describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. We are in the middle of global disruption due to widespread mobile Internet and cloud technology, Big Data, the rise of the collaborative economy and crowdsourcing/funding. As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, … [Read more...]
Can You Measure the Impact of Capacity Building for Nonprofits?
Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft, the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. Other areas include: … [Read more...]
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