Lessons from Global Health
Helping Babies Survive Although I am not a global health specialist, as a strategist, I have worked with many medical groups in the global health arena over the past 25 [...]
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Apr 2020
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Nov 2019
Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]
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Nov 2019
Global Maturity: An Organizational Framework to Succeed Globally
Last week I participated in a discussion around some of the success factors for how organizations can engage and grow more effectively internationally. We reviewed a report entitled Association Global [...]
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Feb 2019
The long term nature of change
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for [...]
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Jul 2018
Two decades of learning
We’re at an interesting juncture in the history of civil society / social sector organizations. Many innovative organizations that started 20-25 years ago have now reached a certain maturity, with [...]
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Apr 2018
Test It! Lessons we are Learning Part II
Introduction The Civil Society and Testing Change project (CS&TC) is an initiative to develop and test new ways for civil society organizations and their partners to operate. The project’s [...]
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Feb 2018
Global Trends for Social Sector Organizations
I recently facilitated a session for social sector practitioners on global trends for organizations engaging internationally, and some ideas for how they could incorporate them into their operations or programs [...]
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Jan 2018
Creating and nurturing global networks
By Roopa Dhatt, Bonnie Koenig and Kelly Thompson A couple of years ago Bonnie wrote a series of posts on how our concept of networking has changed in a more [...]
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Dec 2017
Popular posts of 2017
In case you may have missed them, here are my most popular posts from 2017: Five ways to engage internationally in 2017 (January) – just as the [...]
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Nov 2017
Continuing to Explore Impact Assessment
Earlier this year I wrote about the state of impact assessment. Under the auspices of the Civil Society and Testing Change project, I recently helped convene and facilitate a discussion to [...]