Celebrating the new year with a book giveaway!
Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Successful Nonprofits Inspire and Deliver Results
Nonprofit Hive book giveaway!
As I celebrate my book’s 2 year anniversary, I'm excited to share that the Nonprofit Hive is hosting a giveaway for my book, Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Successful Nonprofits Inspire and Deliver Results!
If you are involved in the great work of social change, the book is full of real world stories of nonprofits that punch above their weight - and how they do it. What does innovation and experimentation look like for the nonprofit sector? What does it look like to scale good ideas, and find partners and build communities and ecosystems?
Speaking of communities, if you aren’t already familiar with The Nonprofit Hive, it is a vibrant community of changemakers, and it's free! I've been an active hiver since it launched.
How it works: After signing up and answering a few questions about yourself, each Thursday you'll have the option to be randomly paired with another changemaker for a 30 minute virtual speed networking conversation. Bravo to Hive founder Tasha Van Vlack who recognized the need in our sector for a place where we can build community, energy, ideas... It's buzzing!
Here is the link to enter the giveaway. Entries are open until January 17.
Casual Conversations with Lori and Leah
Pssst, nonprofit executive directors and board members...
We are jazzed! Join nonprofit consulting guru Lori Stanley and me for some Casual Conversations, a free wheeling Q&A session where you can bring your questions and dive into real conversations about the trials and excitement of nonprofit work.
This is a comfortable space to:
✨ Share your wild dreams and ideas and ask how to make it a reality
🤔Discuss challenges to find a way through
💡 Gain fresh insights
🔑 Leave with actionable strategies
Whether about leadership, strategy, or navigating day-to-day hurdles, we’re here to help you confidently move forward.
🗓️ Two upcoming session options (Jan 23, Feb 21). And Casual Conversations is free! Here is the registration link.
What are you reading these days?
📖 Just finished The Cathedral Within by Billy Shore, lots of deeply personal insights about the passion behind being a change maker. Read about the vision, philosophy and workings of Share Our Strength, an organization that is fighting child hunger in America, and learned about their capacity building initiative, Community Wealth Partners. I will be following them with great interest. Hat tip to Craig Swistun for recommending it.
📖 Loved Bill McKendry's Do More Good. We are fortunate to have his talents and marketing expertise in our sector. Written with heart, this book will help with fundraising, marketing, and the thinking behind programmatic impact and who we are serving. It will spark ideas. Highly recommend.
📖 Re-reading Man's Search for Meaning, excited to join a virtual book club just starting up, hosted by Wendy Wolff of Maryland Nonprofits. Our sector is all about healing and lifting people up, and this is a deeply transformative book, the author chronicles his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
📖 The Launch Pad provides an insider's view of the intense silicon valley startup accelerator, Y Combinator. How they spot talent, how they make selections, how they coach startup teams. While it is a for-profit VC sort of book, there are definitely ideas and gems we can learn from and translate for the nonprofit sector as we design, launch, and seek funding for program interventions.
📖 If you saw the movie Oppenheimer, then you may recall scenes featuring conversations between Oppenheimer and Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. How did this nonprofit powerhouse come about? Pursuit of Genius shares the startup story. Full of lessons about donor intent, difficult choices, will be especially of interest to philanthropic advisors.
Talking innovation on the Purpose and Profit Podcast
🎙️ I had so much fun discussing nonprofit innovation in this episode of Purpose and Profit Podcast, with co-hosts Dave Raley and Carly Berna!
💡 We discuss what innovation looks like for nonprofits, and how innovation comes in all shapes and sizes – from major social changes that affect entire people groups, to smaller, systematic changes that streamline inter-organizational processes.
🔨 We talk about workplace cultures that encourage bringing good ideas forward, challenging the status quo, risk taking and experimentation.
🎧 Watch or listen now here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
And congratulations to Dave on his brand new book, The Rise of Sustainable Giving!