Beth’s Blog

Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Last month, during the Nonprofit Technology Conference plenary session on placing little bets and learning from failure,  we  issued a challenge to 1,000 nonprofits  in the audience.   Let’s do more than just give failure lip service,  let’s put it into practice and share learning from a failure or placing a “Little Bet.”     A ‘Little Bet” as defined by Peter Sims, author of the book – Little Bets, is a small action that you can take to discover something new.  … Read More

#npfail Share Your Nonprofit Fail Story and Win A Microsoft Surface!

Place a little bet & or share your #failure story… you could win a Surface! #13ntcbets ow.ly/k24ok

— Case Foundation (@CaseFoundation) April 13, 2013

You’ve heard the mantra: Learn from failure. But no one likes to screw up and you can’t learn when you’re beating your chest in frustration or pointing fingers at each other.… Read More

#npfail Reflections and Call To Action from NTC Plenary on Failure

I have been working in the nonprofit sector for 34 years, spending the last twenty of them focusing on the nonprofit technology sector to deliver training and capacity building.    I have been waiting a long time to have a sector-wide conversation about learning from failure and last week at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, we were able to just that!… Read More