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Every day, nonprofit organizations re-invent wheels – and mistakes – as they develop information and materials that already exist in other organizations. With new, online marketplaces dedicated to the sharing and exchange of nonprofit tools / templates / business plans / checklists, it’s easy for nonprofits everywhere to save time and money by building on resources that already exist.

So how do you make knowledge exchange go from “I really should” to “I just did”?

Amy Sample Ward will facilitate this highly interactive session intended to spark cross-functional and cross-sector discussion about how to accelerate and reward nonprofit technology resource sharing.

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This discussion will begin with a brief demonstration of how nonprofits and those who serve them use IdeaEncore to upload files and links and add a branded online resource library to your website. The majority of the call will be a fluid discussion exploring how the NTEN community might engage our members in deeper and broader knowledge sharing. We will explore the common barriers to nonprofit resource exchange - time, turf, and trust. How might we capture, organize and make available the best resources from the daily stream of #nptech Tweets and posts? What individual and organizational rewards/incentives would make sharing more compelling? What role should NTEN play versus individual members?

Presenter Bios

Scott Betchler-Levin is a serial entrepreneur in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. He is currently co-founder of IdeaEncore Network, an on-line peer-to-peer learning marketplace (like Amazon or eBay) for nonprofits and those who support them to share, sell, and buy all types and forms of practical knowledge, innovative ideas and information assets.

During his more than 20 years in the for-profit sector, mostly with venture-backed technology start-ups, he has defined and launched over a dozen products and services and lead teams of up to 20 marketing, customer service and business development professionals who created and supported new industries / market niches. As a social entrepreneur, Mr. Bechtler-Levin served as Founding Board Chair of Pacific Ridge School, a new independent, non-denominational middle and high school, for 6 years. Scott has been an active community volunteer including serving as Trustee for Pacific Ridge School, co-chairing the Social Enterprise Institute in San Diego, Trustee of WingSpan Partnerships and alumni admissions interviewer for Georgetown University.

Florence "Flo" Green is co-founder and Vice President of IdeaEncore Network. She is the recently retired Executive Director of the California Association of Nonprofits (CAN), has been a leader, consultant, and trainer in the nonprofit community for over 40 years. Under her direction, CAN tripled its budget and staff size, established a highly successful public policy office in Sacramento and launched the Nonprofit Quality Reporting Initiative.

A founder of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, the Nonprofit Management Association (now the Alliance for Nonprofit Management) and the Terry McAdam Book Award, Ms. Green is a frequent keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant. Previously, she served as Director of Training at the Grantsmanship Center, taught political science, theater and speech for at Cerro Coso Community College, served on a national presidential advisory committee to review Social Science curriculum for the National Science Foundation, and published many articles about nonprofits. In 2008 for the third time she was named one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in the country by The Non-Profit Times.

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