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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Capacity building for communities of color: The paradigm must shift (and why I'm leavin... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • funders do not invest sufficient funds in our organizations to build capacity because we don’t have enough capacity.
  • Yet we are constantly asked to do stuff, to sit at various tables, to help with outreach, to rally our community members to attend various summits and support various policies.
  • Because we don’t have capacity, we can’t get support to develop capacity.
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  • funders provide small grants to nonprofits of color so they can do things like hire a consultant to facilitate a strategic planning retreat, or to send them to workshops on board development, fundraising, personnel policies, or myriad other capacity building topics.
  • critical missing element. Staffing.
  • If we value the voice of our diverse communities, we must build the capacity of organizations led by those communities. But we must do it differently than how we’ve been doing it. We must invest strategically and sufficiently.
  • Capacity Paradox.
  • capacity of immigrant/refugee-led nonprofits by providing this critical missing element of staffing.
  • The gap in leadership among the immigrant/refugee communities will widen further because kids are not entering the nonprofit field. Most immigrant/refugee kids are pressured by their families to go into jobs with higher pay and prestige
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16
     
    Great article on capacity building for nonprofit leadership and staff in communities of color serving people of color
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Six more criteria for your board matrix - Cause and Effect - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 18 May 15 - No Cached
  • Learners: The desire to understand and to improve performance based on experience. A desire to set aside time for reflection, seek out data and expertise, identify knowledge gaps, learn from experience, be curious, scan the environment for new information, disseminate what has been learned, and integrate learning so it is broadly available and can be generalized to new situations.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 18 May 15
     
    blog post by Gayle Gifford in April 2015 on six criteria for board members including 6. learners 5. institutional memory keepers 4. accountable 3. spanning/connecting 2. strategic thinking 1. mission and values lens
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Employee Training Isn't What It Used To Be - IBM - The Atlantic Sponsor Content - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • In Axonify’s platform, assessment and training are directly tied together. Because many employees use Axonify regularly, the platform is able to constantly track employee knowledge and intelligently provide the information needed to close an employee’s individual knowledge gap, says Leaman. The app also leverages learning research to optimize retention by repeating the questions in specific time intervals. Even after an employee “graduates” out of a specific topic, the questions will still be revisited about seven months later to help lock in the knowledge.
  • Tin Can, on the other hand allows companies and employees to record more common learning events: attending a session at a conference, say, or researching and writing a company blog post. “Companies are starting to recognize how employees actually learn and allowing them to do it the way they wish to, rather than forcing them into a draconian system,” Martin says.
  • more open environments.
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  • integrated social collaboration tools into their talent management and learning system
  • IBM has found that employees learn and retain more when they’re working socially.
  • “The opportunity is not to use analytics to control but to give employees meaningful data about the way they’re operating within an organization so that they themselves can do things to improve their working lives and their performance,” he says.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Oct 15
     
    great article in the Atlantic on how employee training has evolved to include much more self-directed, outside-in kinds of learning
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The New Way to Recruit Skilled Volunteers on VolunteerMatch | Engaging Volunteers - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 17 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Corporations are interested in making skilled volunteering a larger piece of their community involvement activities, and companies like Microsoft, HP, American Express and The Gap are publically and actively building more skills-based and pro bono volunteering programs.
  • The skilled volunteering movement is also growing among individuals – organizations like Taproot Foundation and Catchafire have joined VolunteerMatch to connect skilled volunteers directly with nonprofit projects, and they are growing by leaps and bounds.
  • standardized taxonomy of skills that volunteers possess and that nonprofits search for.
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  • The result of the process was 19 over-arching categories of skills, and between 3 and 11 sub-categories under each one.
  • Here are the 19 main categories:
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