Summit Collaborative - Building Nonprofit Power

Gavin gets in his last licks...this time at the his fellow grantmakers!

Interview with Gavin Clabaugh

In this interview Gavin speaks frankly about foundations, nonprofits and issues related to organizational change. By the way - Gavin's Digital Diner blog is fantastic.  First, a few brief introductory notes:

Obstacles to Opportunity Report

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Washington Regional Grantmakers Presentation

Below is a brief video presentation that I am giving today via Skype to a group of grantmakers in Washington DC. Below the video are case studies and materials that I refer to or that were handed out at the session.

First here are some of the questions you asked this morning:

• How do we 'network' folks in a password protected space?
• What is this Twittering thing?
• What is the verb for twittering?
• How do we sort what the options are
• How do we help our members that are geographically dispersed stay connected?
• How could it help the nonprofits we support?
• What are the results: Should I spend time blogging or doing my annual report?
• What about maintenance, sustaining this stuff once we get started?

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Getting Started with Web 2.0 Worksheet

The following videos take you on a tour of five distinct uses of the same blogging tool. Contact me if you'd like to learn more about what it took to set up and sustain these.

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Article series - Sustainable Funding for Technology

We authored this series
of articles to help
grantmakers and grantseekers
better understand the
issues related to sustainable
funding for technology.

Jim Hoolihan, Blandin Foundation CEO

A client of ours, the Minnesota-based Blandin Foundation is in the midst of some major adjustments in the way it works, both in-house and with other stakeholders like Trustees, grantees and alumni. Using online tools and strategies is central to these changes. In this interview with Jim I tried to get underneath what he felt are some of the keys to success as the foundation makes these changes. I think you'll find his comments insightful!

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My presentation at the Council on Foundations Leadership Summit 2008

These 3 short videos cover the content that I presented at the 2008 Council on Foundations Leadership Summit session: Wired Philanthropy: Information Age Tools/Technology By and For Grantmakers.

Web 2.0 'Getting Started' tool

We designed this simple to use Getting Started with Web 2.0 tool for foundations interested in utilizing Web 2.0 tools and strategies. We think this planning tool will help you get started on the right foot! It will help you better understand who you want to engage and why. It prompts you to consider the role you might play in online engagements with your stakeholders and most importantly, it will help you justify to yourselves, and then to the others you will need on board, that the online efforts you propose to launch make sense to pursue.

From Obstacles to Opportunities - Foundation practices related to nonprofit use of technology.

Read our analysis of foundation practices related to nonprofit use of technology. The full report report and eight page monograph 8 page monograph are full of valuable insights.