In their beautiful piece, “The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era,” authors and long-time organizers Neha Mahajan and Felicia Griffin name the current context that so many…
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Responding across the system
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.To tackle complex challenges, we know we need to go from disjointed isolated responses, to coordinated multi-point strategies – or from…
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BIPOC Editorial Series 2024-2025
We are so excited for this year’s 2024 – 2025 BIPOC Editorial series. In its fourth year, Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series continues to amplify the voices of BIPOC network…
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Alive & Learning : a podcast for collaborators, visionaries, and changemakers
Alive & Learning is a podcast about what’s arising at the intersections of Impact Networks, Systems Change, Futures & ForesightIn 2024, Circle Generation, School of Systems Change, and School of…
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Mapping Community Contributions: A Toolkit for Fortifying Resilient Neighbourhoods
In May 2024, OCTOPI embarked on a project with a question in mind:“How can we better understand, document, and map existing practices of reciprocity, exchange, resource efficiency, and coordination in…
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Unraveling, Dis-Integration, and Fluttery Feelings: The Lesser Told Parts of the “Transformation Story”
As I’ve been coming more and more into “the second half of life,“ I have found that I pay more attention, or perhaps I pay attention differently and to different things. One particular area…
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Network mapping: Visualizing stakeholders in the global food system
A Kumu use case by Maria Balcazar Tellez & Alexis Rife of Meridian Institute.Nothing gets us more excited than seeing the endless number of ways in which our customers are…
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Love in Action: Embodying Love in our Organizing and Organizations
This piece was originally published by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on Medium with Inspirators Hope Chigudu, Rudo Chigudu, Julie Quiroz and Susimar Gonzalez Martinez.INSPIRATOR: one who invites and infuses our imaginations with practices…
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Design Foundations For Systems Capital
Designing an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformationThis piece was published in August 2022 in partnership with Hatched and reflects our thinking at this time.What would it look like to…
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Legal arrangements for networks
However they come into being, networks typically have to grapple at some point with the circumstances of their legal registration. This may take place at the outset of a network’s…
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