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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

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In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. March was the “Iron Woman Multi-Conferencethon” for me and I’m just catching up.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

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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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Great reads from around the web on June 12th

Amy Sample Ward

" Knowledge Wiki Workshop - I really wish I could go to this event and hope there are some tweets, blogs, or videos we can follow online to get a peak into the conversations. "The "The wiki: a good tool for organisational knowledge management? ."

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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

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Note from Beth: I’ve been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” A survey of grant data from IssueLab’s parent, the Foundation Center , shows that in 2012, U.S.-based

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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and all over the world, that focus on essential topics like: Fundraising & Grants. Nonprofit Management. Fundraising & Grants / #IFC2016 / @TheResAlliance. Fundraising & Grants. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Fundraising & Grants.

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Myth Busting around Scale

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After five years of grantmaking, many of our inaugural grants are beginning to bear fruit in ways that were anticipated – and many that were not. Adene represents the foundation’s learning about networks, organizational growth strategies and knowledge management. Adene can be reached at asacks at jimjosephfoundation.org.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

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This one calls upon all funders to join Reporting Commitment , where foundations have begun publishing their grants data in an open, accessible fashion. It also provides a knowledge management function since each magnifying glass icon takes the viewer directly to the relevant page on the foundation’s website.