What’s the recipe?
I’ve been reading a lot of things and heard a number of conversations recently that seem to imply that “If you just use this new innovation or tool, or have [...]
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Nov 2012
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Oct 2012
Blog Action Day: The Power of WE
The theme of this year’s Blog Action Day is “The Power of WE - a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world…” I’ve [...]
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Oct 2012
Building an International Framework – What does it take?
Last week I facilitated a roundtable discussing observations and ‘lessons learned’ from the creation and growth of an international organization I helped steer. I wrote about the creation of the [...]
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Jul 2012
Co-creating a new type of organization
How we conceive of organizations is changing. What we have come to know as NGOs, nonprofits, charities and civil society organizations are being re-envisioned as concepts like social enterprise have [...]
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May 2012
Effective International Expansion and Scale-Up
I have been working for many years on issues surrounding international growth and outreach, and Scaling or Scale up. I have periodically posted different aspects of this work, but I [...]
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May 2012
Pooling Our Experiences
“Over 100 years of experience in facilitating social change in a global context”. That’s how many years we got when we quickly estimated our combined work. How to assess what [...]
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Feb 2012
The Value of Mentoring
The good folks at whydev.org are starting a peer coaching program for the international development community. That got me thinking recently about mentoring. One of my earliest mentors advised me [...]
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Jan 2012
Navigating Global Change
What skills, methods and tools will we need to navigate the choppy waters we are in and bring about transformative social change? I have just spent 3 days [...]
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Sep 2011
Working Together
One of the themes that came out of last week's discussions around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the need for more effective cross-sector partnerships. Although there are specific examples, they [...]
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Jul 2011
The Grand Challenge: Saving Lives through Collaboration
Although I generally don’t like Contests, they do exist, and sometimes participation is important. Earlier this year a partnership of the Gates Foundation, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USAID and [...]