This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island InstituteCare is a theme that has come up over and over again…
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How to improve funding to networks
Takeaways from a series of co-creation workshopsIn March 2023, Collective Mind launched the results of a major participatory research study on donor funding to networks. As a follow-up to this research,…
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Yes! We Rise Podcast: Weaving Powerful Networks in Communities
The Yes! We Rise podcast features solutions-seekers, change-makers, and those creating a resilient future. We share stories and strategies to inspire action to build resilience and community transformation. In this episode, Christine Muehlman Gyovai…
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The next big horizon? Uniting networks and funders across sectors to transform our world…
We’re at a critical moment. Intersecting crises of people and planet are creating climate disasters, technological disruption, perpetuating inequities, global pandemics. It can feel daunting. But it can also feel hopeful –…
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Getting to the Goods (and Beyond “Folded Arms” Syndrome) in Impact Networks
“Your generosity is more important than your perfection.”Seth GodinOver the past 20 years of working with a variety of social change networks, I have observed a common dynamic surface after…
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People Stitching Earth | Oppression, Healing, Liberation, and Navigating the Terrain In Between
When we made it back home, back over those curved roadsthat wind through the city of peace, we stopped at thedoorway of dusk as it opened to our homelands.We gave…
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ENACT! – a new month-long festival on networks for social change
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Building Our Network Mapping Muscles
On Wednesday March 16th Katy Mamen and Paul van der Cingel held a webinar on “Building Our Network Mapping Muscles.” For those of you who weren’t able to attend the session,…
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Announcing Kinship: a new initiative
Hello to my network weaver peers! Over the last 10 years, I’ve been exploring how to use networked approaches to align the work of many organizations to change systems. Through New…
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Bridge the Gap between Vision and Reality: a webinar offering
It’s a joy when self-organization works well. It’s a drag when it doesn’t. The gap between how it can be – or should be – and what it is can…
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