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Council on Foundations: a network-based strategy for the global arena?
With the advent of its new network-based strategy, the Council on Foundations has done a significant amount of reorganizing. Part of that reorganization included the downsizing of its global programme staff and the disbanding of …
SIAA Impact Groups – the good old ‘local to global’ does work
Back in December 2012 I was really interested to read Alliance‘s issue on Networks and Philanthropy and see the suggestion that membership associations need to be open to working with other existing networks and entities …
Are we moving towards a culture of short-term relationships which hinder effective networks developing?
How do you justify network organizations in an age of social media and what is the role of networks in a time of social change? These questions and more were discussed at Alliance magazine’s Breakfast …
Just published: the December 2012 issue of Alliance magazine!
With a special feature on ‘Networks and philanthropy’ this is an important issue for those wishing to understand more about networks, for philanthropists and foundations wishing to collaborate more with others, and those wanting to …
Data dividends
Have you heard of the design company Threadless? You may know it as a t-shirt company. Or the former home of the Obama campaign’s current CTO, Harper Reed. Or you may never have heard of …
Reflections from the GEO conference: who and what is ‘the network’ really?
A few years ago, I changed my title to ‘executive connector’, mostly for the heck of it. It stuck, largely because it really describes well what I do and Social Venture Partners (SVP) does. Over …
Food (and drink) for thought (and action) at Environmental Funders Network retreat
An Englishman, a Frenchman, and an American woman went into a bar. Now, this may sound like the start of a terrible British joke, but it instead it begins the inspiring tale of the many …
