Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks.Our April…
Continue ReadingCollaborative Funding for a Just Transition
Several months ago I was interviewed by Leslie Meehan and Ben Roberts of Now What?! The topic was Collaborative Funding for a Just Transition and we explored innovative strategies to generate needed…
Continue ReadingPower dynamics: A systemic inquiry
Why this article? Purpose and positionThe word power keeps popping up wherever I turn. Through my ten years of doing my doctorate action research it was all over my notes…
Continue ReadingThe Story of the Clouds and the Forest
There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this…We are headed in the wrong direction and there’s very little time to reverse course. Because…
Continue ReadingA Framework For Universal Well Being
A note from the Editor: What follows is generously brought to you by The Weaving Lab and taken directly from their Framework for Universal Well Being. You can download the…
Continue ReadingFunding Successful Collaborations
Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral changes required for collective impact initiatives to succeed.In studying successful nonprofit networks, I have…
Continue ReadingThe Power of Communities in Uncertain Times — Part 2
The questions we ask today will define the future we create tomorrow…When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each…
Continue ReadingSYSTEMS CHANGE & DEEP EQUITY
PATHWAYS TOWARD SUSTAINABLEIMPACT, BEYOND “EUREKA!,”UNAWARENESS & UNWITTING HARMAn Interview with Sheryl Petty and Mark LeachBelow is the introduction to the full Systems Change & Deep Equity monograph offered by Sheryl Petty of Movement Tapestries and Mark Leach of Change…
Continue ReadingINTERSECTIONALITY IN NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATION: WIDENING THE SCOPE OF INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
Growing up, I remember my mother rising daily before the sun to make her way to work. After preparing herself for the day, she’d make a tiring journey into work,…
Continue ReadingHEALING MEANS JUSTICE MEANS HEALING
This article on systemic change and restorative justice was written and published by The Bramble Project on April, 19th, 2020 – prior to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives…
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