Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: a Conversation with Beth Kanter

In-person registration is now closed, but our teleconference/webinar option is still available! For any questions, please contact Sue Bennett at sbennett@philanthropynw.org, or 206.443.8468

This event is free for Philanthropy Northwest members; cost is $45 for nonmember grantmakers. Philanthropy Northwest members, please log in to receive the member rate. If you do not know your login information, please contact us at info@philanthropynw.org or 206.443.8437. This program will be hosted at the Philanthropy Northwest office – 2101 Fourth Avenue, Suite 650, Seattle, WA. Information about accessing the webinar will be sent out to participants before the event.

Beth Kanter is a nationally known expert in the field of social media. Her first book, The Networked Nonprofit, discussed the culture shift necessary for nonprofits to effectively utilize social media to grow, change, and succeed. Her most recent publication, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, tested assumptions about measurement and learning in addition to identifying a framework to help organizations move to the next level of networked practice.

Join your fellow grantmakers for a frank and lively discussion in which Kanter will briefly review the content of both books and reveal what she has learned through her work with nonprofits and funders across the country. We will discuss:

• What social media can do for your organization and what pitfalls to avoid
• The necessity to redesign how you work when engaging with social media
• How grantmaking organizations can use (or help grantees use) the “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” assessment tool in order to understand and measure the nature of the change process as your organization becomes more social media savvy
• Strategies for foundations to support communities of practice and peer learning
• What funders need to know when attempting to build social media and network capacity in their grantees
• How to become data informed rather than data driven
  

Speaker:

• Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. In 2009, she was named one of Fast Company magazine’s most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.” Beth has developed curriculum and delivered hundreds of workshops to nonprofits on technology topics over the past 15 years. She is the author of The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

For more information about this event, please contact Sue Bennett at sbennett@philanthropynw.org or 206.443.8468.

Thank you to Microsoft for co-sponsoring this event.