As we enter the first few weeks of what I’ve called the Launch Decade, it’s a good time to explore what we’ll need to launch ourselves into exponentially expanding opportunity for…
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Building a network approach for positive community impact
As a nonprofit network, Pillar’s primary focus has always been to increase the visibility, credibility, capacity, and professionalism of the nonprofit sector. We know our sector is essential to building…
Continue ReadingNet Work: Overcoming Scarcity Mindsets and Practice
“Scarcity alters how we look at things; it makes us choose differently; … our single-mindedness leads us to neglect things we actually value.” -Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: The New…
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Weaving Together a World Without Violence
The Medicine Cards Companion to the healing cookbook, the medicine card deck is arranged into five suits: invocations, principles, ingredients, recipes and wild card. These cards are designed to invoke the senses as well as the intellect,…
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Learning to Breathe in the Network Era
The networked workplace is the new reality. It’s always on and globally connected. This is where all organizations are going, at different speeds and in a variety of ways. Some…
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Getting With the Flows: “Net Work” As Change
For a number of years now I have been digging into network approaches to social change, including supporting collaborative network formation and development at national, regional, state and local levels around…
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Reinventing Organizational Learning — Towards Transformative Learning
Moving from the “learning as usual” to emergent learning and paradigm shifts In transformative learning, the emphasis shifts from information to imagination, from intended learning to emergent learning. ~ Aftab Omer…
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The Importance of Learning in Networks
We are seeing a shift in the social transformation space from evaluation to learning and support for change. Evaluation has too often been a judgment-based, funder driven approach to determining whether…
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Start At Yes : building resilient networks
In working with communities to build resilient networks, I’ve noticed a pattern. Those who “start at yes” – listening for the possibilities, helping others make sense of their ideas, shining…
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MENDING THE COMMUNITY CUP
For years in conversations in organizations, within advocacy groups, and social change initiatives, I have heard variations of these themes: “We know we have to move beyond top-down approaches –…
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