Posts tagged learning communities
Nonprofit Program Design and Individual, Organizational, and Ecological Equity
Nonprofit Program Design and Individual, Organizational, and Ecological Equity

By designing programs that required tens and perhaps even hundreds of people to fly, I was racking up metric tons without even flying the miles myself. I was designing learning communities, for instance, that were dispersing 185 metric tons or more of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere of our vulnerable planet! I want to take my work to scale, but not like this.

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Advancing Strategies, Promoting Innovation, Stimulating Advocacy, Strengthening OrgsLaurie Jones Neighborscapitalism, coalitions, communities of practice, consulting, health equity, learning communities, patriarchy, program development, racial justice, root causes, sustainability, systems change, ways of knowing, economic equity, gender equity, climate justice
An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice
An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice

Communities of Practice tend to go awry when conveners and/or facilitators are not adept at the core conceptual components required for success, and the more often this happens in the philanthropic sector, the less likely participants are to enter the Community of Practice space in an open and optimistic way.

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Promoting InnovationLaurie Jones Neighborsconsulting, education, evaluation, program development, communities of practice, learning communities, grounding theory