Network weaving plays a critical role in community development strategies of all kinds. In the Connected Community Approach, networks of residents, organizations and institutions are central to creating place-based systems…
Continue ReadingEncouraging Innovation & Collaboration at the Grassroots: GoPhil Seed Grants in Nepal
GoPhilanthropic is a US-based non-profit that helps grassroots organizations provide access to education, health and human rights in impoverished regions round the world. Co-Founded in 2011, our belief is that…
Continue ReadingInclusive Networks Are Shaping Our Lives Right Now – Are They Governance?
Increasingly, networks that embrace diverse sectors and stakeholders are working together on shared issues and goals at all levels of society. They are having real impact on the ground all…
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First, An Introduction For a long time, we’ve trained our eyes to see things with edges and boundaries: organizations, countries, selves. Things with edges and boundaries feel manageable and solid. …
Continue ReadingSociocracy: Why, What and Who?
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted J Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Sociocracy is a set of tools and principles that ensure shared power….
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Network leadership (or what I call network weaving) looks like a rhizome. If you have a patch of bamboo in your yard, you know how hard it is to get…
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