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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Jul 2017
Multi-generational Dialogue
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 [...]
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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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Apr 2016
The Practice of Cultural Sensitivity
I have had a number of interactions recently that have me thinking about how the appreciation of and sensitivity to other cultures, the basis for effective partnerships, is a [...]
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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 [...]
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Aug 2015
A Multi-Year Program Review
Although the key to significant change is often in the lessons of long-term implementation, we don’t see these multi-year studies as often as would be useful. Recently the Helping Babies [...]
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May 2015
Observations on a design oriented workshop
This week I helped facilitate the work of a diverse group exploring what resources could be created for people with disabilities, whatever their disability might be and wherever they might [...]