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Building Capacity Through Networks | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • place a priority on a capacity building initiative that presents itself wrapped in a bow.
  • use network contacts to determine whether it would be more efficient to organize a user group for network members who use the same database. Tapping the wisdom of the network can save time, aggravation, and perhaps thousands of dollars in fees for consultants to train staff or customize a new database, or to replace software that staff may simply not understand. Conversely, the network may confirm that your nonprofit is an outlier for using that particular database.
  • Leverage your participation in a network to learn from other nonprofit leaders.
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  • peer-learning cohort
  • plans its next board orientation—and perhaps its success in attracting and retaining a diverse board of directors.
  • Networks are especially well-suited to using web-based knowledge-sharing and collaboration tools that easily allow network members to upload and download evaluation templates, curricula for educational programs, and other tools. Technology also allows network members to connect in real time even though they are geographically distant, and to facilitate educational programs that take advantage of a combination of online and in-person learning components.
  • The one-time workshops nonprofit capacity builders relied on in the past don’t make the same deep impression on program participants as longer-term, peer-learning cohorts, which prompt participants to dig deeply into their personal learning journeys and connect mor
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16
     
    excellent article by Jennifer Chandler and Kristen Scott Kennedy on building capacity through networks, February 5, 2016. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Off-Sites That Work - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Oct 14
     
    good article on planning off-sites that work by Logan Chandler and Bob Frisch, June 2006, The Magazine. Has a chart listing objectives, content, meeting design and structure, and participants 60 days out, 45 days out, 30 days out, 2 weeks out, and 1 week before the meeting.
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