For the past ten days, I've been in Rwanda, Africa. I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE's office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs … [Read more...]
Learning Out Loud – Guest Post by Linda Wood – Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Note from Beth: One of the themes I've been exploring over the last few years related to networks is transparency. We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit. In my next book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" my co-author KD Paine and I take a look at how you measure it. First it requires understanding the definition. Transparency is more than disclosure. It includes participation in acquiring, distributing, and creating knowledge or what my colleagues at the OE … [Read more...]
Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements
Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. But, how do you measure the results? Marino Morino, who wrote "Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity" pointed me to this recent report, "Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding Social Movements" by Manual Paster, Jennifer Ito, and Rachel Rosner with the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and funded by the … [Read more...]
The Networked Nonprofit Board
The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we'd have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decisionmaking to outside influences. There were no examples - so the last chapter of the book is speculative, based on the best thinking of the people who have looked at networked governance. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice. As part of my work as Visiting … [Read more...]
How can we prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world?
Guest post by Patti Anklam Guest blogger, Patti Anklam, author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World, explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. This post is part of a series of articles exploring topics related to network leadership hosted by Leadership for a New Era or LNE, a collaborative research initiative launched by the Leadership Learning Community (http://leadershiplearning.org/) in 2009. LNE focuses on … [Read more...]
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