GLN 2025 - A Different Approach

[Paul Terlemezian]

• Thursday, October 16, 12:00 -12:45          Overview                                    GLN Insights

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85383220879?pwd=mXpWalPwlyaYtyASPOrBHrY1E...

• Meeting ID: 853 8322 0879
• Passcode: 764101

Legitimate Power in Society

• What are the most significant social problems that you believe could benefit from collaboration between for-profits and nonprofits?
• What are the primary challenges or barriers that for-profits and nonprofit face when trying to collaborate?
• What strategies or models can be implemented to ensure that collaborations between for-profits and nonprofits are financially sustainable?
• What are the risks associated of collaboration between nonprofits and for-profits?
• What are the key factors that contribute to the long term-term success of collaboration between for-profits and nonprofits.

During this session we will provide an overview for each of the sessions listed below.

The Plus-BYOL-Plus format includes:

1. An online discussion group for each topic - managed by moderators
2. Moderators to stimulate interest in the topic - before, during, and after the event
3. Topical relevant humor via humorists or video
4. Panelists who briefly offer their perspective and then learn in a breakout room
5. "Remarkable" speakers who listen without speaking until the very end when they report on what they learned by reading the online discussions and observing the panelists and breakout rooms.
6. You  - in any of the above rules and/or via your online engagement via comments.

• Thursday, October 30, 8:00 - 9:15                 The Real Need                       Plus-BYOL-Plus
• Friday, October 31, 1:00 - 2:15                      Business Model                      Plus-BYOL-Plus
• Monday, November 3, 10:00 - 11:15              Decisions About Data            Plus-BYOL-Plus 
• Tuesday, November 4, 2:00 - 3:15                 Incremental Improvement      Plus-BYOL-Plus
• Thursday, November 6, 1:00 - 2:15                Simplification                         Plus-BYOL-Plus
• Monday, November 17, 12:00 - 12:45            Summary                              Conversation

This link will be used for all of these events:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85383220879?pwd=mXpWalPwlyaYtyASPOrBHrY1E...

• Meeting ID: 853 8322 0879
• Passcode: 764101

[Paul Terlemezian]

Which goal do you prefer for your business - Revenue, volume, profit or impact?

Which goal do your clients prefer?

What would motivate a business to have such great impact that its services were no longer needed?

[Daniel Shorr]

To your first two questions, I'll share a bit of my own company's journey, but first start with a maxim: Mission without sustainability does not last.

At GoLLM, my AI insights product company, we started in 2023 with an AI for Good foundation doing unpaid pilots automating large scale public consultation analyses and report generation work for local government authorities and other public entities. We were inspired to help the councils be more informed and inclusive of a broader array of community voices and to empower the councils to act faster with more advanced insights than they could typically produce (and save time and money).

While they loved what we were doing for them, they advised us to first sell our services to smaller players who had less onerous procurement processes. So we did. We began providing our product to SME consultancies to help them help their end clients (both public and private ones) with insights jobs like customer satisfaction and employee engagement. So we've been doing this while also maintaining the relationships with the councils.

[Paul Terlemezian]

Daniel, thank you. As you may recall from our BUDS days - I wonder why too many entities focus more on coping than curing....

[Paul Terlemezian]

Seven words to consider.

1. Family
2. Community
3. Fairness
4. Dignity
5. Safety
6. Respect
7. Service

[Daniel Shorr]

Excellent. The article is now behind a paywall, but for folks benefit:

The conclusion is that these seven words are not rhetorically magical, just honest. Author Matt Watkins argues that nonprofits need to speak to the broader public, not only to funders or other professionals in the sector. His final test for language is not whether it sounds clever, but whether people feel included by it and believe it.

The article’s practical takeaway is this: replace abstract, sector-insider wording with morally legible, everyday language that signals human stakes.

[Paul Terlemezian]

Agreed!