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 * Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for the Nonprofit Technology Sector **



Join us for a discussion about the value of failure in the nonprofit technology sector. You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! Through lively sharing and discussion we will dive into the art of placing small bets or affordable losses that can lead to innovation. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community - and special surprise guests who will join us via video.
 * Session Description ** :

Panelists:

Beth Kanter @kanter

Brian Reich

@BrianReich

Allie Burns

@allieb37

Erin Shy

@ErinShy

Megan Kashner

@Benevolentnet


 * Grand Synthesis Takeaway**


 * Nonprofits and the people who work for them have to loose their fear of taking risks and that opens us up to fail and improve
 * Failure is a luxury - and we can't fail the people so it has to be incremental by learning to learn from placing a lot of Little Bets
 * Nonprofits and funders need to change upfront expectations about projects and make space to allow for a fail or something not working out. It's okay as long as we learn something from to improve.
 * New definition of success: Adaptability and Transformation
 * Nonprofits need to fail from the inside out -- we have to make it okay to not be perfect inside of nonprofits and to honestly share lessons learned beyond our walls
 * Many of the 1500 people in the room at NTC agree with us, but the challenge is when they go back to the office - culture change is needed
 * Nonprofits need to embrace failure, not just accept it. This means front loading failure as well as doing "after action reviews."


 * Failure Bow**



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 * Call To Action **

1. Place a Little Bet and Tell Us What You Learned - You Could Win A Microsoft Surface or Other Fearless Schwag from the Case Foundation

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/npfail

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2. Use #npfail to continue the conversation

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 * Session Notes and Learning Capture**



[|Discussion]
 * Rob Cottongham Sketch Notes from Session (**Download larger [|drawing here]**)**

Storify by Jeremy Blivens and Jena Sauber (aka God)

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Photo Documentation by Ed Schipul and Tendenci []

Row Feeder Documentation of Hashtag for analysis [|https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtsV5h84LWk0dDNtT0dmc1VXeWZxX3hzeDE4N2QxYnc#gid=0]

[|Collaborative Notes] by

Jason Samuels, @jasonsamuels Margaux O’Malley, @margaux_omalley

Resource Links

Beth Kanter's Post on Failure Bow and Changing Our Views On Failure Failure is not a F Word []

PlayPump Story []

Brian Reich Reflection []

Sage: Would You Fail the Marshmallow Test? []

Want more about Failure

Beth's Failure Curation []

Beth's posts: 2010 to now: []

Beth's posts: 2004-2010 []