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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Announcing My Next Book: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not long after, I was leading a workshop in Alaska at a nonprofit conference, and we had another chance to connect. We talked about the need for being more mindful of our technology. Mindful Leadership. Understanding and practicing different ways to work that replenish individual energy. Productive and effective meetings.

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

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One of the founding members of the Fund, Paula Sammons, who is a Program Associate of Family Income and Assets & Leadership at the W.K. We have each had an experience that connected us with something larger than ourselves, and discovered that this awareness can be cultivated from within. Who are the founding members?

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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And mind you, they weren't all women who wanted to be journalists. They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. So, we started this program. Last year we piloted it, in 2009.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. You can listen to it here , and I have included the transcript below.

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