Allison Fine

This month’s Social Good podcast is on the power of storytelling and it introduces a brand new format. I blogged about the transition here. Basically, most organizations are struggling keeping up with the world – everything is changing so quickly, information is zooming all around the web, opinions are shifting quickly (hello, Komen!) and organizations [...]

When news broke late Monday that Susan G. Komen defunded breast exams by Planned Parenthood affiliates I was stunned. Here is a good news story about what happened.
What? Is it possible that the two titans of women’s health were now at odds with one another.
My reaction was to start a conversation among friends like Amy [...]

The Knight Foundation released a study, Real Time Charitable Giving, recently on the giving by text spearheaded in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Here is a news article about the use of text giving from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake. More than $43 million was given by text immediately after the [...]

I had the opportunity last week to speak at the annual gathering of Leadership 18, a membership group of the nation’s largest health and human service providers. Gloria Johnson-Cusack, the CEO of the organization, asked me to address the following question: Our members are dipping their toes into the social media waters; so what?
I asked [...]

My friend, Lisa Colton, wrote  fascinating post on the personality of network weavers. Meyer-Briggs for network weavers, she called it. In the post Lisa asks a very provocative question: Do the different styles of network weavers (personality, skills, training, preferred tools, strategic objectives) produce different patterns of network maps?
I’ll start my answer on what we [...]

Nancy Schwartz extended a kind invitation to me to join the first Blog Carnival of 2012. The topic this month is to share our dreams for causes, organizations or the nonprofit sector this year. What a great way to ease my way back into blogging in this new year (I’m still calling it the new [...]

I was in Atlanta last week with the HandsOn Network gang. It was a fascinating immersion into creative process led by Michelle James (what she calls Creative Emersion.) The goal of the week was to introduce the futures thinking (with the amazing thinker/facilitator Rick Smyres) and social media to ten HandsOn affiliates to help them [...]

This month’s Social Good podcast is a conversation about Epic Thanks, a program of Epic Change. Epic Change is a small organization started three years ago by Stacey Monk and her partner, Sanjay Patel, to support a community in Tanzania. Their signature fundraising effort takes place around Thanksgiving every year for the past three years. [...]

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