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Announcing 2012 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellowship Opportunity
Submitted by bcelnik on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 15:32Tags:
OSI-Baltimore invites you to send in your applications!
OSI-Baltimore is now accepting applications for the 2012 class of Baltimore Community Fellows!
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Upcoming Webinar: Action Learning - Maximizing its Use in Community-Based Leadership Development Programs
Submitted by bcelnik on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 15:05Presenter: Donna R. Dinkin, DrPH, MPH
Date: Monday, April 23rd 11:00AM-12:00 Noon PDT (2:00P-3:00PM EDT)
This webinar is for individuals who are interested in maximizing the use of action learning as a component of a formal leadership development program. Specifically, the session will define ‘action-learning’, will highlight how this methodology is being used in public health leadership development programs and will briefly describe strategies and challenges for coaches of community-based action-learning teams.
Member Spotlight: Dianne Yamashiro-Omi
Submitted by bcelnik on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 12:44
Dianne Yamashiro-Omi, Senior Program Officer at The California Endowment, is a big picture thinker. We were drawn to her many years ago when she began talking about boundary-crossing leadership. We felt very lucky to be a partner in this work, running a learning circle for her grantees so that we could all learn more about how to support leaders who can build bridges across boundaries. One divide that can be tricky is the one between funder and grantee, but Dianne brings a keen awareness of power dynamics. She frequently asked how her presence might alter a frank conversation and offered to attend (or even not attend) meetings to support candid learning. Dianne has been an invaluable learning partner asking the kind of tough questions we love about racial justice and the kind of leadership it would really take to tackle inequities in the health of Californians. read more »
Guest Blog Post by Curtis Ogden: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership Webinar
Submitted by bcelnik on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 09:21This article was originally posted on Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) (the webinar powerpoint is available here)
Picking up from Gibran’s post yesterday and continuing in the vein of follow-up to our LLC webinar on collective leadership, I want to respond to some of the questions we did not have a chance to answer or answer fully from participants, including requests for examples of collective leadership in action and inquiries about blocks and how to work through or overcome them.
Upcoming Webinar: Confessions of a Network Strategist: Lessons Learned from the 1st Year of Education Pioneers' Network Strategy
Submitted by bcelnik on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 12:13Tags:
Presenter: Jason Weeby, Education Pioneers
Date: Wednesday, March 14 11:00AM-12:00 Noon PDT (2:00PM-3:00PM EDT)
Guest Blog Post by Gibran Rivera: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership Webinar
Submitted by bcelnik on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:13This article was originally posted on Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) (the webinar powerpoint is available here)
Last Tuesday, Curtis Ogden and I had the privilege of hosting an LLC webinar on collective leadership. Much of what we did was point to observable patterns in ways of working together and how these tend to open up possibilities for shared leadership. The metaphor of tilling the soil is most appropriate precisely because we have run up against the limitations of industrial implementation. The appropriate response to increasing complexity is one that can get beyond linear causality and into a mindset of ecosystems.
Upcoming Webinar: The Promise and Perils of Supporting and Evaluating Network Formation and Development
Submitted by bcelnik on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 13:58
Presenters: Kim Ammann Howard (BTW information change), Melanie Moore (See Change), Claire Reinelt (Leadership Learning Community)
Date: Wednesday, February 15 11:00-12:00 Noon PDT (2:00-3:00PM EDT)
In recent years, leadership funders have begun experimenting widely with how to move beyond investments in programs and organizations to funding the formation and development of networks in order to catalyze greater collective impact. Drawing on the experiences and examples of three leadership and network evaluators, this session will explore the following questions.
- What are the promises and perils of investing in network formation? What evaluation questions are important to ask?
- What are critical practices for supporting and nurturing the emergence and development of networks? How can evaluation inform the development and support of networks over time?
- What are promising practices for evaluating network behavior and network effects in the early stages of network formation?
This session will provide useful advice about how to fund, support, and evaluate network potential and sustainability in the earliest phases of network formation.
2012 Webinar: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership
Submitted by bcelnik on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:15Presenters: Curtis Ogden and Gibran Rivera, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Topic: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:00-12:00 Noon PST (2:00-3:00PM EST)
Much is being made these days of the Occupy Movement and its potential for showing us a new way to lead (we would call it leader-full, not leader-less). Prior to this important civic groundswell, many have been looking at how to create the conditions for emergent and collective leadership to move us in more just and life-affirming directions. Given the complexity of the issues we face and the diversity of perspectives in our various systems, it has been recognized that we cannot rely on individual, expert, or command-and-control leadership to move us forward. We must unleash more robust and adaptive collective intelligence. For almost 20 years, the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) has been building the collaborative capacity of change agents for greater social impact. In this webinar, IISC Senior Associates Curtis Ogden and Gibran Rivera will explore stories of and practices for creating the conditions to unleash leader-full momentum that embodies and leads to the social change we seek. For additional information check out their blog post, Roots of Collective Leadership.
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Leadership for Networks Designed to Change Systems - ReAmp Case Study
Presenters: Heather McLeod Grant and Rick Reed
Date: Tuesday, December 6th 11:00AM - 12:00 Noon PST (2:00PM - 3:00PM EST)
Much has been written about the power of collaborative networks and shared leadership to increase social impact. For nonprofits and funders that want to go deeper on the tactics of how to build an effective network—and what kind of unique leadership is needed within networks—it is useful to understand how RE-AMP has done it. RE-AMP's process was grounded in the tools of systems dynamics and multi-stakeholder facilitation. But RE-AMP combined these well-known "best practices" with network-centric "next practices"—including different leadership at different stages in the network’s evolution. During its two-month study of RE-AMP, Monitor Institute identified six key principles that RE-AMP members followed in building their network and described them for other social-sector leaders in a case study.
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Guest Blog Post by Lori Lobenstine: Tricks for Innovation: Boston Innovation Lab
Submitted by bcelnik on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 09:54Tags:
Guest blog from Lori Lobenstine, from the Design Studio for Social Intervention
At the Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI), one thing we've learned over time is that coming up with new ideas is more than a matter of being asked. Even when people are asked to "think outside the box," we tend to have a hard time getting away from the things that limit our thinking. In the nonprofit sector, those things include: "Is this fundable?" "Do we have the staff to do this?" and "Does this sound too crazy?" among others. Youth are not immune to the challenges of innovation either. Sometimes in youth programs we feel that "youth know what youth want", and if we just get out of their way, they'll come up with the perfect idea. While youth are just as likely as adults to come up with a good idea, they also have the same challenges and needs for tools to help them think creatively.
We were excited by the possibility of co-leading an Innovation Lab with the Leadership Learning Community (LLC) that was focused on developing leadership, especially when we talked with Claire Reinelt, LLC’s Evaluation Director, and found out that we could really think at a large scale. The very question that Claire posed, "How do we support and catalyze 1000s of leaders with a passion and a vision for whole child development in vulnerable communities?" meant that neither we nor our participants could think in traditional ways about leadership development. It was time to imagine entirely new possibilities for LD!
