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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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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

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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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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.” What if we incentivised time spent in reflection and with each other?

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These typically translate into leadership, passion and culture, and analytical capacity and systems. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process. This process of going from individual’s insight to group’s ‘knowledge asset’ is a critical one.