Celebrating an Anniversary
Time flies and already I have finished five years of blogging. To celebrate I spent some time reviewing those 85+ posts, adding other ideas that came to mind from that [...]
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Feb 2015
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Nov 2014
A new round of UN Summits
Every now and then I get ‘historically reflective’. A few years ago I did a post on “Back to the Future” (which also has some great discussion in the comments [...]
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Oct 2014
Tools and methods for co-creation in workshops
This post is cross-posted from DIYToolkit where it appeared as a guest post. Earlier this year I worked with Ci2iGlobal, a global group of social entrepreneurs and NGO practitioners, to [...]
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Apr 2014
Scaling for Impact by Scaling Deep
I’ve written about scale-up (scaling) many times before, as scale-up or under another ‘label’ for the scaling concept – international outreach. Working with a number of groups involved in various [...]
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Nov 2013
Asking the Tough Questions
Through the wonderful technology of livestreaming and a number of conference organizers who planned livestreaming into their events, I was able to travel recently to conferences and workshops in Rome, [...]
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Aug 2013
International engagement: new trends and ‘time honored’ patterns
In support of a few organizations that are increasing their international engagement, I have been surveying a number of organizations further along the international engagement spectrum for their experiences. I [...]
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Mar 2013
Global Health Trends – 2013 Update
This is an update on the piece on Global Health Trends (Whither Global Health?) I wrote a little over two years ago. In addition to what I have been observing [...]
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Jan 2013
We’re All in this Together
Reading and thinking about Oxfam America’s new aid campaign and some of the reactions to it, made me think about the title of a song my kids used to listen [...]
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Jan 2013
Building Bridges
We seem to be in a period where there is a lot of talk (and indeed a fair amount of action) around ‘the need for change’ and ‘doing things differently’. [...]
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Oct 2012
Are We Readying Ourselves for Significant Change?
It strikes me that we are going through some of the significant change in civil society since I entered the profession 30 years ago . In the past few years [...]