Earlier this month I participated in International Civil Society Week in Belgrade. Since 2012, when I last wrote about a CIVICUS sponsored global gathering, we are seeing more agreement on [...]
As we move into a new year, there have been a number of pieces discussing trends we should be aware of. Here are some of the trends I find most [...]
Going Global Takes Time - that was the theme of an American Society of Association Executives MasterClass on operating globally that I presented at last week. 80% of the group [...]
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 [...]
The youth engagement working group is the first group that is part of the Civil Society and Testing Change project, a global project to develop and test some operational changes [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In September (Making the Most of Online Events) and November 2013 (Asking the Tough Questions) I participated in a number of conferences and workshops through livestreaming and other online opportunities. [...]
India, like the U.S., China, and other similar countries that incorporate a large land mass, contains within it a very diverse population. Thus what applies in some situations my not [...]
