Marnie Webb, Co-CEO, TechSoup Global Twitter Handle: @Webb Does your organization embrace failure? Does it create room for it and celebrate it as a stepping-stone towards greater success and innovation? Join Marnie to learn how to create a culture of innovation at your nonprofit and empower your staff to fail forward and onward, as she experienced when recently launching Caravan Studios.

1. Getting Across the Pool
Nonprofit Boot Camp 2014
Mountain View, CA
June 10, 2014

2. Hello!

8. I’m supposed to be
talking about innovation
and failure.

9. I keep wondering
though: is all this talk of
failure a helpful lens?

12. Learning to excel at
swimming happens
over years.

13. ConsultantCommons.org

16. Progress, in swimming, is
measured in seconds.

19. 1. Ideas need oxygen.

20. 2. There’s a big
differences between
people and users.

21. 3. You have to be able to
smile and say, “We’ll put
that in the roadmap.”

22. But the most important
thing we’ve learned?

24. Caravan Studios is a division of
TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization.
We are @caravanstudios.
We build things to increase the
public good.

25. Reference
• Caravan Studios
http://www.caravanstudios.org
• TechSoup Global
http://www.techsoupglobal.org
• Range
http://www.rangeapp.org
• SafeNight
http://www.caravanstudios.org/#!safenight/cfvg
• NetSquared
http://www.netsquared.org

26. Resources
• 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly
http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/03/1000-true-fans/
• Do Things That Don’t Scale by Paul Graham
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
• We Don’t Sell Saddles Here by Stewart
Butterfield
https://medium.com/medium-long/we-dont-sell-saddles-here-4c59524d650d