Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]
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Nov 2019
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Nov 2019
Global Maturity: An Organizational Framework to Succeed Globally
Last week I participated in a discussion around some of the success factors for how organizations can engage and grow more effectively internationally. We reviewed a report entitled Association Global [...]
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Sep 2019
Global Engagement Takes Time – Part II
One of the fun parts of being more ‘senior’ in one’s career is having the opportunity to share ‘lessons learned’ over the years. I had the opportunity to participate in [...]
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Aug 2019
Global Engagement Takes Time
Having worked with numerous organizations on not only developing their goals and designing their plans, but actually implementing them over time, I’ve come to appreciate the value of learning the [...]
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May 2019
The road(s) to paradigm change
The Testing Change project I founded and am managing had an in person gathering earlier this month. It was a great opportunity to really grapple with the concept of what [...]
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Apr 2019
International Civil Society Week 2019
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 [...]
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Feb 2019
The long term nature of change
I’ve been leading an initiative that’s now going into its sixth year and have thus been thinking about some of our learning around long term change. Long term change for [...]
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Jan 2019
Trends to Watch for in 2019
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 [...]
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Dec 2018
2018 Year End Wrap-up
Some of my favorite pieces this year From my blog: Strategic International Outreach, October 2018 Global Trends for Social Sector Organizations, February 2018 From elsewhere around the internet: Executive Director [...]
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Oct 2018
Strategic International Outreach
If your organization is expanding its international reach, taking time for doing the due diligence to explore and understand new environments is crucial. First steps to take include clearly articulating [...]