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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We think that it is time to invite them to the “adults’ table”—even though this may entail a gawky “adolescent” phase. This true interdependence – including funders in the mix – paves the way for the kind of deep collaboration and problem-solving that is necessary to tackle complicated community problems.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

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We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. So even if they know all about nonprofits, they’re not going to have the food that they need to generate creative, inspiring, and innovating ideas for their strategic plan. .

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

Have Fun - Do Good

They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. The Green Festival in San Francisco, so many people come to it that the problem is, it's crowded, and that is people's main complaint, "When are you going to get a bigger building?" I want that problem.

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Reich: Right now, in Silicon Valley with Big Tech, we’re in the kind of late-teenager phase of development, where technologists have become fully aware of all of their power. To be able to anticipate problems and opportunities, rather than just responding when it can almost feel like too late?

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

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He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. Unfortunately, we have a government that is on the side of the problem makers in the US economy.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

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First, I am part of that post Baby Boom generation that was too young to fight in Vietnam, not called to fight in Desert Storm, too old for the current conflict. troop pull-outs, but a time-frame for such a phased withdrawal. We need to immediately recognize and address this problem. military forces in the coming year.

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