In the September 2014 issue of Engage! I profiled a new article co-authored by John Kania, Fay Hanleybrown and Jennifer Splansky Juster of FSG entitled Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact, which is included in Collective Insights on Collective Impact a new resource published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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I have been designing, facilitating and hosting organizational and community events for more than twenty years. While I do believe in the adage from Open Space that "whoever comes IS the right people", at the same time, I appreciate that to build a robust and shared vision, or to generate new ideas for how to address a complex shared issue, it is essential that individuals -- or sectors -- that hold a key perspective should be present.
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When Social Innovation Generation (SiG) launched in 2006, the global conversation about social innovation was between relatively few players. In 2013, you can track considerable amplification; the most encouraging aspect of this growth in social innovation activity is that millions of people around the world want to dedicate time and energy to solving complex social and environmental challenges. The conversation has now deepened into the ways we can most effectively achieve impact and scale.
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A handful of local farmers started a movement to protect Ontario's farmland and water from a $22 billion US-based Hedge Fund who planned to convert 2,300 acres of unique silt loam potato fields into an aggregate quarry that would dig more than 200 feet below the water table.
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In Public Service Clouds: The Way of the Future, Jean-Philippe Veilleux imagines a future where the ideas proposed in a the recent paper Fed Cloud: the Future of Federal Work developed by GovLab –a think tank in the U.S.-based Deloitte Federal practice that focuses on innovation in the public sector -- has become a reality.
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My friend and colleague, Heather Plett is a gifted writer and facilitator who used an invitation to teach a workshop at a local university and the requests of several friends asking for her help to build a strong presence online as catalysts to create a beautiful guidebook entitled Social Media: A Beginner’s Guide to Meaningful & Mindful Engagement.
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