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August 2006 Edition

Nonprofit Online News Journal

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August 2006: We have a number of articles of great substance, including "The Manifesto on Social Innovation", "Donors as Learning Organizations", and the winner of The Nation's Student Writing Contest, "Project Corpus Callosum". Continuing the emphasis on innovation and learning, Michael GIlbert has written the third installment of his series on Nonprofit Knowledge Management, this one dealing with the topic of weaknesses. We also have reprinted his short instructional piece on How to Write a Book in One Year, based upon our Keystrokes workshops. We have our regular features of course; Michael Gilbert has written a Quicksheet describing a new model for assessing how well you're listening to your stakeholders, called The HIMS Matrix. And we have our usual compliment of 20 annotated resources in 22 categories.

Table of Contents

 
8 - Letter From the Editor
9 - Contributors

Articles:

10 - Nonprofit Knowledge Management Series:
The Nimble Nonprofit, Part 2: Making the Most of Our Flaws
By Michael C. Gilbert
Continuing the Nonprofit Knowledge Management series and the theme of the "Nimble Nonprofit" is our latest piece on the dicey topic of weaknesses. This article covers the basics of learning from mis-emphasis on the role of failure.

17 - Project Corpus Callosum
By Sarah Stillman
This article won The Nation's Student Writing Contest which received over 700 entries on the topic of what issue defines their generation. She effectively uses the metaphor of the portion of our brain that connects our left and right hemispheres to describe a fundamental challenge: How can our knowledge of injustice be effectively wed to our passion to change it?

19 - Focus On... Seeing Differently?
Donors as Learning Organizations
By Jenny Hyatt and Allan Kaplan
This article is a timely compliment to our knowledge management series. The authors look directly at the issues that keep grantmakers from learning, especially their relationship to failure.

25 - How to Write a Book in One Year
By Michael C. Gilbert
This article outlines the Keystrokes model of writing discipline, which teaches project management and practical habits that help writers be consistently productive.

30 - Social Silicon Valleys: A Manifesto for Social Innovation:
What it Is, Why it Matters, and How it Can Be Accelerated
By Geoff Mulgan with Young Foundation colleagues Nick Wilkie, Simon Tucker, Rushanara Ali, Francis Davis and Tom Liptrot
The authors of this manifesto present a model of how social innovation happens, how we fail to encourage the early stages, and how much more we need to know about how to support and accelerate it.

Other Resources:

83 - Quicksheet: The HIMS Matrix: Are You Listening to Your Stakeholders?
84 - News
112 - Classifieds

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