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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Jan 2018
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Oct 2017
Learning Lessons from Implementation
The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) program, launched as a global collaboration in 2010 had as its first partners the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Laerdal Medical Company of Norway, the [...]
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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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Jan 2017
Five ways to engage internationally in 2017
Widen your horizons - The divisions between national and global have blurred. One result of this is that it is even easier to find information that can be helpful in [...]
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Nov 2016
Using the Sustainable Development Goals as a Global Gateway
When I first started working on the concept of international engagement in the 1990’s it was a relatively uncommon concept. There were local, national and international organizations and they were [...]
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Aug 2016
From Youth Engagement to Youth Integration
In a previous blog post I wrote about the beginnings of the Civil Society and Testing Change (CS&TC) project. This post shares our experiences last month with our first [...]
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May 2016
Global-Local Linkages
Last week I facilitated a roundtable on the topic of global-local linkages: how global trends are affecting our local work, and how we are learning to incorporate global perspectives better [...]
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Feb 2016
Networking and Global Impact – Part #2
This is the second part of a series on how our changing approaches to networking are affecting how organizations grow globally. The first part of the series, providing the background [...]
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Feb 2016
Networking and global impact
How are our changing ways of networking changing the way NGOs develop and expand globally? When I was writing about organizations increasing their international engagement for the book Going Global [...]
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Jan 2016
What Comes Down from the Mountain? (The World Economic Forum 2016)
This week the World Economic Forum is meeting in the Swiss town of Davos. Many of us aren’t aware of this or if we are, don’t think anything will come [...]