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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. Here are the definitions: Connectivity Network: This type of network links people to allow them to exchange experience and information as a result of that exchange learn.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it. The Impact on Institutions.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

Having the cooperative capabilities to schedule an instructor on a localized calendar has unmeasurable benefits. You are definitely reading that correctly. Webopedia Definition" Webopedia.com. Resource Management. The number one item on our cool stuff list is Resource Management. Assessment Creation Tool. References.

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Grantseeking in 2017: Know the Scene — Demonstrate Inclusion

Tech Soup

You must show that your organization — your mission, goals, and objectives — reflect the local, regional, or national makeup of the community you serve. Evaluate your conflict resolution process. Here's their published definition. The five tips included: Create diversity networks. Invest in diversity training.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Definitely. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

A quick glance makes it clear that the not-entirely-standard definitions of the diseases listed, and the data collection process implied (often a matter of guesswork and intuition), may introduce some uncertainty into the reliability of the data that results.

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