Trust-based funding approaches are the slow-food version of conservation finance. These approaches are intimate and time-intensive, by nature, and are built on personal relationships, significant upfront investments of time, and…
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This article appeared first on YES! Media as part of their “Murmurations” columnA note from adrienne maree brown: Shawna Wakefield is passionate about collaborative work and collective thinking, as well as…
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For all justice-loving people who are curious about networks or what leadership program alumni can and are accomplishing by using network strategies, I am happy to share a recently released…
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It takes a bodyMy interview with artist Maggie Roberts covered perspective, vision, AI, bias, resistance, extraction, the bravery of imagination, and the role of art in a crisis. The conversation was nuanced,…
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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,…
Continue ReadingGetting to the Core of Long-Term, Complex, Collaborative and Networked Success
The following content is a 2-post contribution from Curtis Ogden, originally published at Interaction Institute for Social ChangeLessons From 12 Years of Weaving a Regional Network for Better Food FuturesRecently…
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All our current global challenges can basically be traced back to one underlying paradigm or myth: That we are separate from others and the world. When we try to address challenges…
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The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create…
Continue ReadingChanging the System by Fire
It takes a villageLast week, I interviewed Phoebe Tickell on imagination activism and the space between having solutions at hand and deploying them in the right way to build a better world.Phoebe…
Continue ReadingOn Remedy and Redress as Network Principles
“I am trying to shape my despair into some form of action, but for now, I am standingon the cold edge of grief”– Terry Tempest Williams, “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”Once in…
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