Posted by Karen Graham from Technology and Innovation at MAP for Nonprofits. There’s no doubt that many organizations are using cloud technologies in innovative ways. But, more specifically, what links might we find between the unique aspects of cloud technology, and the conditions and success factors for innovation? Recently NTEN posed an interesting question to [...]
Posted on Grantstation.com. The Tech Awards, a program of The Tech Museum of Innovation, honor innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity. The Tech Awards recognize individuals, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit companies that are using technology to significantly improve human conditions in the categories of environment, education, health, economic [...]
Michael Levine, of Flywheel Communications shared this new report from the Council on Foundations and Knight Foundation on nonprofit media and the IRS. The Federal Communications Commission issued a report in 2011 concluding that accountability reporting, especially at the local level, has contracted dramatically, with potentially grave consequences for communities, government responsiveness, and democracy. Moreover, [...]
To address the nonprofit demand for peer learning experiences, Common Good Vermont worked with local executive coaches to design Leadership Development Circles. As part of our pilot effort, we were most fortunate to work with Susan Palmer of Susan Palmer Consulting, LLC who volunteered to facilitate monthly breakfast meetings in Montpelier between January and May. [...]
Watch the full presentation Vermont Community Foundation Staff will be hosting two online chats on April 12 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. and April 13 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. Jen Peterson, vice president for Community Grantmaking at the Vermont Community Foundation, tells the story of the second of three new Community Fund grant programs, Small and Inspiring, which [...]
The Center for Leadership & Innovation is pleased to announce the Spring 2012 Professional Business Certificate in Leadership and Management. This professional certificate from The University of Vermont is designed to develop strategic leadership and management skills and is ideal if you are a mid-level supervisor, manager, executive, human resource professional, or leader in a [...]
Anne Lezak of ADL Consulting and Project Manager for the Building a Better Vermont Project, shared this July, 2011 report from the TCC Group with Common Good Vermont on how R&D activates program innovation and improvement in the nonprofit sector. The report is worth a read for anyone interested in improving nonprofit effectiveness using innovative [...]
Cynthia Gibson recently posted this article to The Nonprofit Quarterly that may challenge your thinking or have you nodding your head about nonprofit impact and innovation. She advocates for ” more thoughtful, analytical, and serious treatments of how we can better measure impact and make decisions as to what is true innovation and what is [...]
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