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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. Unfortunately, organizational memory is short, and without a way to capture knowledge and learning, they become lost. .

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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” You might call what we’re doing Big Knowledge, or Big (Qualitative) Data.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. How to create systems for accessing knowledge resources that foundation staff will use. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Of the surveyed nonprofit employees, roles included responsibility for programs, fundraising, grants management, technology, HR/office, or marketing. Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce.org marketing team. Trends in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management? ."

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are three paths to scaling organizational impact beyond the confines of one’s current organizational context (that will be familiar to most): advocacy, knowledge sharing or (an old funder standby) scaling services. Want to scale through dissemination of knowledge? The path to scale requires excellence– but not across the board.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

This one calls upon all funders to join Reporting Commitment , where foundations have begun publishing their grants data in an open, accessible fashion. It also provides a knowledge management function since each magnifying glass icon takes the viewer directly to the relevant page on the foundation’s website.