The challenges we face with respect to building more affordable housing are complex to state the obvious, and resolving them calls for an integrated set of strategies that go far… Read more Affordable Housing is an Economic Problem →
I have written in the past about what I call the pendulum swing or the bandwagon effect. I think this is what has happened with respect to collective impact over… Read more Collective Impact as Uprising →
Funders should apply to community agencies to fund them. Can you get your head around that? What would that look like? Why would that approach be more impactful and cost-effective… Read more Upside Down Thinking: Funders should be Rebels →
Collective Impact is multi-sector approach to large-scale collaboration that is authentically inclusive of citizens in its development and implementation – in particular citizens who have life-experience with the big problems… Read more About Collective Impact: Types of Problems, Degrees of Change, Learning Loops, and Methods of Thinking →
In July and August, I sought out individuals in my personal and professional network to contribute to a major paper I was writing on Collaborative Leadership and Co-Creating Cities of… Read more 35 Voices On Collaborative Leadership and Co-Creating Cities of the Future →
I came across an article by George Monbiot (www.monbiot.com) that appeared in the Guardian this July. In this article, Monbiot writes about James McGill Buchanan, an economist influenced by neoliberalism… Read more Democracy is dying. Time to get to work. →
Note: In addition to writing about community change and penning commentary, I am a story teller. I write fiction and spoken word. This piece is a mix of fact and… Read more LIVING POOR: KAREN’S STORY →
This article contains tools and approaches designed to help with the development of Collective Impact strategies. This resource is meant to serve as a guide for you and your colleagues… Read more Developing Collective Impact Strategies →
When an employer won’t allow a worker more than 25 hours a week but requires that worker to be available for work 7 days a week, people become little more… Read more Precarious Work →
As some of you may know, I often open and close Tamarack gatherings with original music. Some years ago I wrote The Truth We Find in All that We Deny… Read more IF WE WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD →
In an article written for Fast Company, Kaihan Krisppendorff, identifies four steps to building an effective social movement, which I have adapted below: 1. A community forms around a common… Read more Movement Building and Collective Impact →
