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Reflections from Center for Nonprofit Excellence Annual Conference, Louisville, KY

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face!

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

Our program used Lean Sigma to figure out the variance in care, we then used design thinking and brain storming techniques in partnership with IDEO to come up with solutions. I also describe how we incorporated Lean Startup as part of a broader framework for change. Finally, we used Lean Startup to create MVPs and test these solutions.

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Americans still believe they live in a compassionate country, report shows

Fast Company Tech

The report that caught my eye was issued in January 2025 by the Muhammad Ali Center , which the late boxer cofounded 20 years ago in Louisville, Kentucky, to advance social justice. Defining compassion Sociologists define compassion as the human regard for the suffering of others, and the notion of using action to alleviate this pain.

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