Sarah Shanahan and Jim Best of the Master Mappers are hosting an Exploratory Meeting about social system mapping of the Network Weaving Facebook Group.WHERE: Please register in advance for the Exploratory virtual…
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Peer Assist Process
This peer assist process is great as a stand alone session or can be part of a community of practice. It is useful when a group or project has a challenge…
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How to Set Up an Innovation Fund
Innovation funds (also called seed funds or activation funds) are small regranting funds used to jump start innovation, collaboration and self-organizing in networks. They have proven to be one of…
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Network Weaver Virtual Cafe – Kick-off
Adrian Röbke and Nenad Maljković are hosting a Network Weaver Virtual Cafe kick-off.WHERE: Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/158170326WHEN: February 8th, 2019. 16:00 – 17:00 UTC (in your time zone) DETAILS: To further build our…
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Trainings from Visible Network Labs
Many people today are deeply engaged in the “network way of working”, driven by a conviction that working together will make a greater impact than going about any one project…
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Three Workshops from New Directions Collaborative
About ten years ago, I was working with a non-profit organization in the field of sustainability and social change, and was invited by a funder to a conversation with about…
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Awareness Activities
A lot of research has been conducted lately to identify how awareness or mindfulness operates in our brain, the benefits of this mental state, and how we can spend more…
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The Power of Networks
If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you’re devoting significant effort to your networks. But what return are you seeing on that investment?I recently spoke with 500+ nonprofit leaders at Nonprofit…
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Transformative Networks Are Multiscalar
This is an excerpt from the Network Weaver Handbook. I’ll be writing an update with my latest research and thinking on the topic in the coming weeks so stay tuned! …
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A Network Connector Story
Sometimes a story can convey meaning better than a lecture. This week’s free resource is a story from the early days of the Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) Kitchen…
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