Fresh, home-made chocolate chip cookies are the culinary equivalent to a warm hug from someone you love at the end of a tough day. They are best savoured and shared - warm from the oven - along with some good conversation, a laugh and a glass of cold milk.
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It’s sad. There are too many people who speak ill of charities.
Some make sweeping accusations or conclusions without any real evidence or understanding.
Some prefer to focus on the mistakes charities make (and of course they make some) rather than the good they deliver.
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In last month's edition of Engage! we turned to you to help us select a winner for our photo contest searching for the perfect picture to encapsulate the theme of "Possible."
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There are times in our lives when a book or resource hits our desk and it seems to be the right book for right now. That was the case when I first read about and then ordered 'The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures - Simple Rules to Unleash a Culture of Innovation' by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless.
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If you are serious about tackling complex issues and changing systems in an ever-changing world, then you should be serious about Developmental Evaluation (DE). Michael Quinn Patton popularized the approach in his groundbreaking 2010 book, Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use. In it, he provided a comprehensive account of how evaluative thinking and practices could assist - rather than short circuit - the efforts of social innovators.
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I was one of more than 250 delegates from around the world who attended the 2015 Collective Impact Summit in Vancouver. I came to the CIS 2015 with three primary questions:
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