Multi-generational Dialogue
This post has been co-authored by Bonnie Koenig and Alyssa Smaldino In 2011 the most recent UN’s State of the World Report noted that “People under 25 make up 43 [...]
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Jul 2017
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May 2017
The State of Impact Assessment
Why Impact? As I wrote in the introduction to my book “International Engagement for Impact in a Changing World”: “We’ve become complacent about outcomes as things we can measure [...]
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Feb 2017
Test It! Lessons we are Learning
I continue to work on a global project that focuses on the significant change that is impacting the civil society / NGO sector and developing and testing some new initiatives [...]
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Sep 2016
Exploring Social Innovation
Over the past decade the concept of innovation and social innovation have increased dramatically in usage and popularity. Google ‘innovation’ and over 500 million results come up; social innovation and [...]
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Jul 2016
Test It!
A Project to Test Operational Changes to Civil Society Organizations A couple of years ago, a small group started a global conversation around the dramatic operational changes that will be [...]
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Nov 2015
DATA: #datarevolution #BigData #DataShift – what’s it all about?
As my work covers many different subject areas and communities, I spend a fair amount of time following trends in these different areas and how they impact my central focus [...]
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Aug 2015
A Multi-Year Program Review
Although the key to significant change is often in the lessons of long-term implementation, we don’t see these multi-year studies as often as would be useful. Recently the Helping Babies [...]
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Jul 2015
2015 – A Year of Transition Gains Momentum
As has been obvious to those who follow the international policy arena and/or have seen all of the #post2015 hashtags, 2015 was going to be a year of transition in [...]
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May 2015
Observations on a design oriented workshop
This week I helped facilitate the work of a diverse group exploring what resources could be created for people with disabilities, whatever their disability might be and wherever they might [...]
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Apr 2015
Exploring the Social Lab Framework
About a year ago I discovered the work of Zaid Hassan around Social Labs through social media and a new book he wrote The Social Labs Revolution about designing and [...]