Fundraising is tough. Unless, as individuals and organisations we develop our creative thinking and innovation skills our fundraising will lag behind.
Innovation isn’t about a genius working in isolation. Good ideas are formed from a series of previously unconnected connections. So how do you increase your chances of making those connections and developing ideas?
Come see examples of how not engaging your whole team in the design process, avoiding usability testing and knowing more than your users will lead to delivering a poor product. But be careful, you may leave motivated to do just the opposite.
Ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.
The presentation was part of the Funding Conference in London on Monday 23 February 2015.
The presentation was by Lucy Gower from Lucy Innovation and looks at the process of innovation.
Find out more about the Funding Conference from NCVO: https://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events/funding-conference/workshops
Find out more about NCVO's practical support on funding: https://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/funding
Come see examples of how not engaging your whole team in the design process, avoiding usability testing and knowing more than your users will lead to delivering a poor product. But be careful, you may leave motivated to do just the opposite.
Ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.
The presentation was part of the Funding Conference in London on Monday 23 February 2015.
The presentation was by Lucy Gower from Lucy Innovation and looks at the process of innovation.
Find out more about the Funding Conference from NCVO: https://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events/funding-conference/workshops
Find out more about NCVO's practical support on funding: https://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/funding
Chained to its desk in Cubicalia, The creative Brain is at its lowest point — until a mysterious stranger beckons. Together, they embark upon a journey where The Brain’s creative talents are solely needed and put to the test. The Brain discovers how to function optimally to generate ideas and solutions, and you’ll discover what fundamentals are needed to foster a supportive environment where everyone is at their creative best.
In this lecture, I changed the format and invited my class to learn form playing games and exercises to boost creativity. The students loved these games, and participated enthusiastically in this format of learning!
Free yourself from the “testing culture” and unleash your creative beast! From high-tech to no-tech, practical ways to get students, teachers, and parents to be active designers and tinkerers. (V2 from presentation at ISTE 2012)
Harness the power diversity can bring to your team or organisation. Exploring tools and techniques. Slides from public session presentations, including Agile Cambridge 2015.
Innovation Tips That Will Change the Way You ThinkSlideShop.com
Innovation plays an important role in a business. If you don't create more effective processes, think of new products, or implement new ideas, your business will less likely to succeed.
How do you become an innovative person? Here's a short presentation. More themed slides here: http://slideshop.com/Themed-Slides
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Handout): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see slide deck too)
This presentation contains 100 hand-selected inspirational quotes on creativity and innovation. A few have never been published elsewhere. While this is a PDF version, there are instructions at the end about obtaining the PowerPoint version of this slide deck.
As we enter an Age of Creativity, driven by AI and new platforms, we believe you are going to need 4 Creative Superpowers to thrive rather than simply survive. These are Making, Hacking, Teaching and Thieving which are all brought to life in this presentation. However they are covered in far more details in our book Creative Superpowers: Equip yourself for the Age of Creativity which is available on Amazon and all good book stores.
Here are the slides from the recent parent learning community workshop:Creativity in Schools. Beginning with defining, 'Creativity', participants engaged with the hugely inspiring TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. The succeeding workshop encouraged further dialogue and collaboration across the whole school community including clay avatar modeling and spontaneous performance and choreography by grade 6 students.
The cats out of the bag! No longer is this elusive topic an enigma anymore. We've uncovered the greatest myths about creativity. These ideas will make you think differently about the world of creativity and business in general.
1. People are either born creative or not at all
2. I can't draw I'm not creative
3. I have writers block
4. Business has nothing to do with creativity
5. Creativity won’t help in my job
Thanks for stopping by! Now keep on rocking in the free world.
Jeph
Every word counts: tips on writing powerful, persuasive copy for complex proj...CharityComms
Sally Harper, copywriter, British Heart Foundation
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
Chained to its desk in Cubicalia, The creative Brain is at its lowest point — until a mysterious stranger beckons. Together, they embark upon a journey where The Brain’s creative talents are solely needed and put to the test. The Brain discovers how to function optimally to generate ideas and solutions, and you’ll discover what fundamentals are needed to foster a supportive environment where everyone is at their creative best.
In this lecture, I changed the format and invited my class to learn form playing games and exercises to boost creativity. The students loved these games, and participated enthusiastically in this format of learning!
Free yourself from the “testing culture” and unleash your creative beast! From high-tech to no-tech, practical ways to get students, teachers, and parents to be active designers and tinkerers. (V2 from presentation at ISTE 2012)
Harness the power diversity can bring to your team or organisation. Exploring tools and techniques. Slides from public session presentations, including Agile Cambridge 2015.
Innovation Tips That Will Change the Way You ThinkSlideShop.com
Innovation plays an important role in a business. If you don't create more effective processes, think of new products, or implement new ideas, your business will less likely to succeed.
How do you become an innovative person? Here's a short presentation. More themed slides here: http://slideshop.com/Themed-Slides
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Handout): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see slide deck too)
This presentation contains 100 hand-selected inspirational quotes on creativity and innovation. A few have never been published elsewhere. While this is a PDF version, there are instructions at the end about obtaining the PowerPoint version of this slide deck.
As we enter an Age of Creativity, driven by AI and new platforms, we believe you are going to need 4 Creative Superpowers to thrive rather than simply survive. These are Making, Hacking, Teaching and Thieving which are all brought to life in this presentation. However they are covered in far more details in our book Creative Superpowers: Equip yourself for the Age of Creativity which is available on Amazon and all good book stores.
Here are the slides from the recent parent learning community workshop:Creativity in Schools. Beginning with defining, 'Creativity', participants engaged with the hugely inspiring TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. The succeeding workshop encouraged further dialogue and collaboration across the whole school community including clay avatar modeling and spontaneous performance and choreography by grade 6 students.
The cats out of the bag! No longer is this elusive topic an enigma anymore. We've uncovered the greatest myths about creativity. These ideas will make you think differently about the world of creativity and business in general.
1. People are either born creative or not at all
2. I can't draw I'm not creative
3. I have writers block
4. Business has nothing to do with creativity
5. Creativity won’t help in my job
Thanks for stopping by! Now keep on rocking in the free world.
Jeph
Every word counts: tips on writing powerful, persuasive copy for complex proj...CharityComms
Sally Harper, copywriter, British Heart Foundation
Visit the CharityComms website to view slides from past events, see what events we have coming up and to check out what else we do: www.charitycomms.org.uk
A slide presentation was made to PhD (FPM) students at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad about the contents of the book: How to Prevent Recession - using ancient wisdom and management ideas (for which His Holiness the Dalai Lama has written the Foreword and Prof Khandwalla, former Director Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad has given the review). There are you tube videos about the book and author interviews given in the following links:
1. YOU TUBE VIDEO - SUMMARY - HOW TO PREVENT RECESSION
https://youtu.be/yoxOU0VXxUY
2. YOU TUBE LINKS:
Part 1
https://youtu.be/DLFCCkGJC-k
Part 2
https://youtu.be/SO_2DBW4r2Q
Part 3
https://youtu.be/qpxQKe44xf8
Part 4
https://youtu.be/mvJ7z7Yzc_s
Part 5
https://youtu.be/RK_VRthvtWc
Ready, Set, Present (Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content): 100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Creativity adds to everyone’s personal and professional bottom line and is where innovation and excellence begins. Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content slides include topics such as: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. There are 9 slides covering the definition of creativity, 10 slides on how creative mind works followed by 14 slides describing the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. Within the first 43 slides you will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity. In addition you will receive 19 slides of unique information about fostering organizational creativity, 23 slides covering management and group creativity as well as 11 slides about creativity and the future plus much more.
A roadmap to creativity and innovationCharityComms
Lucy Gower, fundraising and innovation consultant
Innovations and trends in communications, brand and fundraising conference
www.charitycomms.org.uk/events
We all have the capability to be innovative. The challenge is how to channel the creativity of both individuals and organisations to deliver exceptional fundraising results. This presentation shares innovation inspiration from the charity and corporate sectors to help you develop a personal attitude for innovation and develop ideas for your fundraising.
Creativity is a discipline we need more than. But the right conditions are needed for it to thrive. Taking a look at academia, science and recent writing about ideas- this presentation uncovers the 11 conditions required for creativity to flourish.
Innovation isn’t about a genius working in isolation. Good ideas are formed from a series of previously unconnected connections. So how do you increase your chances of making those connections to improve your fundraising?
Every startup begins with an idea. This is a talk on how to come up with startup ideas and how to use validation to pick the ones worth working on. It's based on the book "Hello, Startup" (http://www.hello-startup.net/). You can find the video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmiE8d_5Pw
Innovation for personal growth, Creativity, Growth, Learning,personal success
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thirsty for knowledge
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be confient
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international traveller
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tortoise brain
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brain power
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treat life as an experiment
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attitude of wisdom
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risk
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self motivation
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self improvement
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dedication
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growth
,
skills
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knowlege
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innovation made personal
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leadership and management
iQ FutureNow: Creative innovation through mobileiQcontent
Tim Reid of Sparks Fire brings his wealth of experience in driving innovative creativity to this presentation. He focuses on delivering value to your customers through innovation. First presented at iQ FutureNow, Manchester, 4 July 2012.
I am a great proponent of ‘Jugaad’ (innovation, the frugal way) and my kids (4 and 8) have taught me a lot on how to think creatively. They have helped me to ‘unlearn’ and explore creative options to solve problems. Attached is a presentation that I made with my 8 yr old during a recent visit to Louisville Science Center.
I wanted to share this with all of you, because although the messages from the walls of Science center are very simple; there are lessons that individuals and corporates can use for ‘continuous improvement’.
Creativity isn't just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We all have the ability to be excellent creative thinkers. - https://www.milestechnologies.com
How to-get-people-to-love-your-ideas-100-openLucidity
The best ideas need oxygen to survive. Without support, buy-in and resources from colleagues, managers, your board, supporters and beneficiaries an idea quickly dies. And that’s why being able to navigate the subtleties of interactions with the people you seek to influence, and approach them in a way that gives you the best chance of getting the results you want is a skill worth perfecting. Making an idea or an innovation happen is riddled with barriers, egos and politics. Your ability to influence could be the difference between success and failure.
Enlighten Conference - Stewarding your donorsLucidity
Fundraising is about building relationships. The relationship that you have with your supporters is absolutely key to your fundraising success. But its not as simple as just asking people for money; great fundraising is about listening and then responding to your supporters needs, engaging with them in a way that is right for them, making it easy for them to get involved and showing them the difference they have made. Not just once, but again and again. For life.
With examples from both the charity and corporate world, this session will give you ideas about how to give your supporters the best and most rewarding experiences so that together you can make a lasting difference to the causes that you fundraise for.
Developing new ways to raise money and awareness involves risk. Taking risk to develop new products and income streams is part of most corporate business models. Yet charities are much more risk adverse. If we are not prepared to take risks, how can we develop powerful learning curves that ultimately enable us to make a bigger difference for the causes that we fundraise for?
What does integration mean for fundraisers? It can mean many things to many people depending on the organisation you work in. For me an important part of integration is the relationship between service delivery staff and fundraisers to help connect your donor better to your cause. Essentially it's all about storytelling.
2. today
• What is an idea
• How to have good ideas
• Have a go at idea generation
techniques
• OK ideas vs good ideas
• How to select the best ones
• Do something different
3.
4.
5.
6. “Part
of
what
made
the
Macintosh
great
was
that
the
people
working
on
it
were
musicians,
and
poets,
and
ar9sts,
and
zoologists,
and
historians
who
also
happened
to
be
the
best
computer
scien9sts
in
the
world.”
Steve
Jobs
7.
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12.
13.
14.
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18.
19.
20. How are you setting yourself
up to have good ideas?
What do you already do?
How are you getting out from behind
your desk and making connections?
How can you adapt your environment
for better idea generation?
21.
22. “ A new idea is delicate. It can be
killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can
be stabbed to death by a joke, or
worried to death by a frown on the
right person’s brow”
Charles Brower
51. Your challenge
You are marketers of mineral water.
Find ways to sell more
52. Using What if? to get out of your
existing mindset
Step 1. Choose an unwritten rule of
toothpaste
Step 2. Decide your audience
Step 3. How will you sell more to them?
53. How to have good ideas
Where else in the world?
67. Criteria…….
• Addresses
a
strategic
challenge
• Based
on
insight
• Income
poten9al
• Brand
fit
• Time
to
market
• Poten9al
to
scale
• Ease
&
simplicity
• Gut
feeling
69. "I think there is a world market for
maybe five computers.” Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
What are you going to do Mr Edison
- put one in every town in the
country?! Congress to Edison
regarding the telephone
70. How
to
have
good
fundraising
ideas
• Generate ideas around a strategic need
• Get good insight
• Deliberately make connections
• Take time to relax
• Aim for lots and lots of ideas
• Use creative thinking techniques
• Use criteria to select the best ideas
• Be brave
• Do something
72. Do something
• On your postcard write at least one new
thing that you are going to try
• Tell the person next to you
• Put your name, address and email on the
postcard
• Give the postcard to Lucy
• She will send and email it back to you to
remind you
73. Find out more
www.sofii.org
Where good ideas
come from
Steven Johnson
Switch and Made to Stick
Chip and Dan Heath
Sticky Wisdom
?What if! The Innovation Company
Business beyond the Box
John O’Keefe
Linchpin and Purple Cow
Seth Godin
Enchantment
Guy Kawasaki
The Art of Woo
G Richard Shell and Mario Moussa
Making ideas Happen
Scott Berkun
Good to Great
Jim Collins
74. Best
fundraising
blogs
• The
Agitator
theagitator.net
• 101
fundraising
101fundraising.org
• Mark
Phillips
queerideas.co.uk
• Fundraising
Detec9ve
fundraisingdetec9ve.com
• Beth’s
blog
bethkanter.org
• Future
Fundraising
Now
futurefundraisingnow.com
• Jonathan
Grapsas
flatearthdirect.com/blog
• The
Penguin
Blog
boVomlineideas.wordpress.com
• Katya’s
blog
nonprofitmarke9ngblog.com
• Seth’s
blog
sethgodin.typepad.com