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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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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

Have Fun - Do Good

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 fund personal development work that increases organizational effectiveness and encourages strong leadership. The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

That means building in more structure and more discipline, and for myself, it was a lot of letting go of doing everything and knowing how to do it, you know, figuring everything out and really bringing in people who bring that different set of skills. I ended up going into bodywork to have a skill that I could perform with my hands.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

These tools include skill development through volunteering, a sense of personal confidence, finding employment through social networks, information gained through participation, a trust in and willingness to help others, stronger government, and importantly, community attachment. Join in and make a difference in your community! Get another!

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

Have Fun - Do Good

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" There was nothing at the time that would provide that kind of forum for this type of leadership among women that was so powerful and yet so disjointed. And there wasn't. So an organization emerged from there.

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