Guest post by Kate Wing
We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way? Haven’t you ever thought of this?” about a topic where yes, the rest of us in the room have been thinking about this for a long, long time.… Read More
Guest Post by John Esterle
One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks. Indeed, that was my theme for the day given that I facilitated a couple of morning conversations on that topic and then in the afternoon heard Ify Mora from the Barr Foundation (http://www.barrfoundation.org/) talk about how they use social network mapping to capture the relationships that have been built through their innovative Fellows Program.… Read More
Guest post from Kathy Reich
For a while I’ve been puzzling over what makes a good network leader. The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? The Grantmakers Gathering on Networks provided a few a-ha moments for me about network leadership:
Guest post from Annie Hernandez
The day I heard about the concept for this gathering of grant makers I knew I had to be involved. As a member of the planning committee, I became even more geeked out about this intimate, interactive learning opportunity.… Read More
Guest post from Marie Sauter
Among many insights gleaned from this week’s conference on “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” (http://www.geofunders.org/networksconference.aspx), one theme keeps recurring for me: the importance of grantmakers sharing power and control within broadly construed networks of collaborators in the quest for social change.… Read More
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