Going Global Takes Time
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 [...]
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Aug 2018
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Feb 2018
Global Trends for Social Sector Organizations
I recently facilitated a session for social sector practitioners on global trends for organizations engaging internationally, and some ideas for how they could incorporate them into their operations or programs [...]
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Jan 2018
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]