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Getting Ready for the MIX Mashup

Jamie Notter

Next week, Maddie and I will be in San Francisco for a one-day conference called the MIX Mashup. It’s a project of Gary Hamel, one of my favorite business authors and a great inspiration for what we wrote in Humanize. Go online and discover the details behind case studies like Morning Star, Whole Foods, Gore, and others.

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The Top 5 Lean Startup Resources for Social Good Organizations

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: Two years ago while working on a capacity building project for NGOs funded by the Dept of State in the Middle East, I found myself in Jordan and visiting colleague Rami Al Karmi’s start up lab. As a bonus, it also includes a few dozen case studies and some great extra material from Lean Startup conferences.

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth Kanter

It offers specific examples of what to test and mini-case studies. Here is a case study of Red versus Green. You can test: Color: It invokes feelings, which in turn sets the emotional mood for acceptance or rejection by the viewer. It’s a subjective and culturally influenced unconscious and involuntary response.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth Kanter

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26).

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth Kanter

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth Kanter

” My role in this project was “Master Trainer,” which over the 18 months included training the trainers, providing support over the Internet, and co-facilitating this culmination event. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.)

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An Interview With Facebook’s Libby Leffler: Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

This morning, I attended a meetup for San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that Libby and her team hosted at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park and next week she will be on the speaker line for the Social Media For Nonprofits Conference on July 26th (you can still register). What are your five tips for nonprofits? What is the url?