Category Archives: leadership
Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers?
Fundraising for Public Education I’ll be frank. I have mixed feelings about (seemingly endless) school fundraisers. As a policy wonk, I understand that needs exceed resources, but am perpetually frustrated when we are not transparent about the value of donations and contributions in public-school budgets, making it impossible to know what it actually costs to [...]
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“We Seek Agility”
Team: Take a look. It’s as if we helped create parts of this. (Perhaps in a complex, highly networked kind of way, we did). Grateful to ResonanceBlog for sharing. Complexity & Humanity 2.0 View more videos from ResonanceBlog.
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Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future
I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
Hometown Advantage with a “D”