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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

Leaders say that planned growth for this post-pandemic period includes being more open to collaboration with other nonprofits and private industry, and leaning into their skill set — knowing what they are best at and going after niches. In the U.K.,

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Lee Bryant at #KMUK10

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at #KMUK10 , also known as the Knowledge Management UK conference. We are currently suffering from filter failure; which means the need to help people navigate and work within this world is really huge; we need skilled sense makers! From Lee Bryant: KM = sense making.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yet, nonprofit leaders and managers will have to carefully assess, prioritize, and take risks with their finances, which will likely require new skills and bold adaptation to continuously changing circumstances. Katharine Bierce manages thought leadership research content on the Salesforce.org marketing team.

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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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Myth Busting around Scale

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Then partnership development and network management is going to be key. Funders need to understand the linkages between scaling strategies and functional capacity in order to support the right organizational skill set needed to grow impact. Myth #3: Entrepreneurs were “born to scale”.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foundation staff may have strong and conflicting points of view, and may not have a process or skill in validating ideas, to raise them from individual’s idea to one the whole group can work with and share. This process of going from individual’s insight to group’s ‘knowledge asset’ is a critical one.