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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Movements for equity, inclusion, and belonging have the potential to revolutionize both mission-based organizations and philanthropy. Here are a few lessons I’ve learned, in no particular order: You need to make sure that your mission, operations, and desired outcomes are aligned with each other.

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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. Luckily, the learning, evaluation and knowledge management pioneers want to keep talking and meeting.

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

Engaging the imagination, it puts forward four global scenarios, with an accompanying fictional case study that describes how philanthropy and technology may co-evolve for development. It examines how philanthropy and technology are now interlinked for development initiatives. Four Scenarios: Do You Want to Live in Any of These Worlds?

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

So much attention in philanthropy has been devoted to nonprofit accountability, like the work of Charity Navigator ; it looks like the time has come for funders to be more open about how they’re doing grantmaking. Illustrate how institutional philanthropy is relevant to the critical issues of our time.

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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This of particular obsession in my world — the world of Jewish philanthropy. Adene represents the foundation’s learning about networks, organizational growth strategies and knowledge management. The Jim Joseph Foundation focuses on the Jewish education of youth and young adults based in San Francisco.

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Unlocking the Potential of Peer Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His work at Monitor Institute has addressed topics including social innovation, social media, and the changing context for philanthropy. As the team’s Director of Knowledge Management he helps the team capture new insight, hone its toolkit, and pioneer new approaches.

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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

The term is a play on “ organizational memory ” which is defined as is the accumulated body of data, information, and informal learning created in the course of an organization’s existence or known as “Knowledge Management.”