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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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

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

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  • 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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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Aug 15
     
    This woman is featured in Downes video at ChangeSchools event; her web page design, content, and expertise deserve a careful look.
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Teaching algorithms not to discriminate | Tampa Bay Times - 0 views

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  • Algorithms have become one of the most powerful arbiters in our lives. They make decisions about the news we read, the jobs we get, the people we meet, the schools we attend and the ads we see. Yet there is growing evidence that algorithms and other types of software can discriminate.
  • The people who write them incorporate their biases, and algorithms often learn from human behavior, so they reflect the biases we hold.
  • Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning workshop, which considers the role that machines play in consequential decisions in areas like employment, health care and policing.
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  • The tech world is notoriously resistant to regulation, but do you believe it might be necessary to ensure fairness in algorithms? Yes, just as regulation currently plays a role in certain contexts, such as advertising jobs and extending credit.
  • Should computer science education include lessons on how to be aware of these issues and the various approaches to addressing them? Absolutely!
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    article by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, printed in Tampa Bay Times on 8.14.15
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How To Avoid Being Overwhelmed And Exhausted | Akoya - Empowering Women thru Life Coach... - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 01 Aug 14
     
    nice blog post by Vanessa Loder, July 1, 2014 on how to avoid being overwhelmed, Akoya Power From Within. Published originally in Forbes. Seven how-tos by Brigid Schulte to manage overwhelm 1. Recognize and release the pressure 2. Align With Your Values (...being clear on your priorities...to enjoy the journey) 3. Cultivate leisure time 4. Simplify your to do list 5. Work smarter, not harder 6. Get a support group 7. Practice appreciation and gratitude; be mindful
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"With every action a character takes, it has an echo" - Mary Review - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 May 17 - No Cached
  • Junot Díaz’s Drown and Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!—both of those collections, from the late ’90s—and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” which I still think is one of the most perfect short stories ever written.
  • Zora Neale Hurston and Mules and Men. In that book, she writes, “Mouths don’t empty themselves unless the ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
  • And this tends to turn into the idea that writers of color are in some sort of “identity corner,” whereas white writers just get to write about life. I will never forget one night in workshop when the professor asked our brilliant mutual friend Brit Bennett to explain what her story had to say about the black experience. Like her story had to be some after-school special, either harrowing or uplifting, just because her characters were black.
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  • In general, there’s a hesitancy to use “black” as a descriptor, which either points to a widespread anxiety about race or a subconscious belief that the descriptor “black” is pejorative. Or, maybe a third option—which is that you can’t say “black” at the beginning without the average white person tuning out immediately. I hope that’s not true; it might be.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 May 17
     
    Interview with Angela Flournoy where she recommends three short stories as the best she has ever read by Junot Diaz (Drown), Edwidge Danticant (Krik? Krak!) and James Baldwin's (Sonny's Blues).
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