Learn Share Lab on Co-Creation
A small but diverse group from 12 countries and many fields of practice came together recently to explore the concept of co-creation at the Learn Share Lab. The event modeled [...]
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Feb 2014
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Aug 2013
International engagement: new trends and ‘time honored’ patterns
In support of a few organizations that are increasing their international engagement, I have been surveying a number of organizations further along the international engagement spectrum for their experiences. I [...]
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Apr 2013
Are you (Really) Ready to Lead this Meeting?
I was recently asked to do a training session for facilitators. I have facilitated many meetings over the years, of many types of groups, but never received any formal training [...]
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Feb 2013
The Boundary of Age
This is a guest post by Kate Otto of Everyday Ambassador. My guest post on the same theme can be found on EA's site here. My name is Kate Otto, [...]
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Jan 2013
Building Bridges
We seem to be in a period where there is a lot of talk (and indeed a fair amount of action) around ‘the need for change’ and ‘doing things differently’. [...]
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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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Sep 2012
CIVICUS Assembly 2012
I have again returned to the CIVICUS World Assembly this year after having last attended in 2010. Here is my blog post from that session. Many of the themes this [...]
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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
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 [...]