Recorded on August 19, 2013
SPEAKERS:
• June Holley, Principal, Network Weaver Consultants Network and author of The Network Weaver Handbook
• Nadia Owusu, Senior Associate for Knowledge and Organizational Development, Living Cities
• Tamir Novotny,Senior Policy Associate, Living Cities and EPIP-NY Steering Committee Member (Moderator)
Open-Sourcing Social Change: Engaging networks for social justice and leadership development
Our nation's social and economic challenges often appear intractable because so many policies, practices, and institutions interact in complex ways that yield inequitable results. As a result, social justice organizations are increasingly realizing that no one institution or sector is capable of addressing these problems on its own. With this challenge in mind, nonprofits, social enterprises and even governments are experimenting with strategies to "open-source social change" by mobilizing networks, co-creating innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems, sharing learnings from their work in real time, and engaging with non-traditional partners. During this webinar, we will examine what it means to open-source social change, explore examples of this work in practice, discuss ways to enact this approach in members' own work, and identify the opportunities this approach creates for leadership development for emerging practitioners of social justice work.
2. EPIP
Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
(EPIP) is a national network of
foundation professionals and social
entrepreneurs who strive for excellence
in the practice of philanthropy
Our mission is to develop emerging
leaders committed to building a
just, equitable, and sustainable society.
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4. Your hosts…
Tamir Novotny,
Living Cities
(@tamirnovotny):
Moderator
Nadia Owusu,
Living Cities
(@nadiaowusu1)
June Holley,
Network Weaver
Consultants
(@juneholley)
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6. Wickedly complex problems require
networked solutions
Everyone is part of the problem
Everyone has to be part of the
solution
We need open-source approaches
to make this happen
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7. Guiding questions for today
What does it mean to open-source
social change?
How are organizations currently
approaching this work?
How can practitioners advance open-
source approaches within and
outside their organizations?
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9. How do you define open-sourcing
social change, and how is it different
from how social justice
organizations, especially
foundations, usually work?
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12. Open sourcing social change is about
creating the kinds of networks where we
are able to access provocative different
perspectives, where we collectively
create an environment of thousands of
collaborative experiments that we all are
able to watch and learn from.
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13. Network LensGoals and Tactics
Systems & experiments
Organizational Lens
Systems & experiments
Relationships, syste
ms & experiments
Goals and Tactics
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14. What do we mean by networks?
These patterns
influence the
quality of
communication
and the likelihood
of collaboration
and innovation
Networks are sets of
relationships and
the patterns they
create
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16. Networks extend farther than we think
Intentional Network
Formal Network
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Smart Networks: Most helpful in promoting
collaboration & innovation
• Core consists
of clusters w
different
perspectives
who know &
trust each
other
• Periphery
draws in new
ideas &
resources
• This
represents a
Field of
Potential for
action
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Smart Networks are Self-organizing
Action
Many people initiate
experiments &
collaborations – as
opportunities arise
Move from small acts
to larger
Breakthroughs from
diversity and
learning
Successful
innovations spread
Leverage Points
Leverage Points
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Does your network look like this?
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Widely Distributed Network
Leadership
Attention to Relationships
& Communication
Control
Goals
Control
Goals
Relationships
Revised Gibbs Triangle
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37. Discussion Question: What do you see
as the biggest barriers to open-sourcing
your work? (e.g., organizational culture;
skills; leadership)
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38. Follow-up Exercise
What’s one thing you could do following
this webinar to try to advance an open-
sourced approach to social change?
Examples:
Propose a blog for EPIP National
Close a triangle
Use Twitter to engage a new potential
ally
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39. THANK YOU!
Kate Seely: Kate@epip.org, @kfseely
June Holley:
June@networkweaving.com, @juneholle
y
Nadia Owusu:
nowusu@livingcities.org, @nadiaowusu1
Tamir Novotny:
tnovotny@livingcities.org, @tamirnovotn
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Hinweis der Redaktion
6 months ago, we discussed our knowledge strategy focused on making what we are learning from all of our activities portable in order to engage our problem solving network and increase our impact. We shared that we had really started to produce and disseminate a lot of knowledge content, and that we had honed into the key areas that we wanted to be influential on. Now, we are working to harness all of that content to drive the network effect, or grow our problem-solving network, even to include unusual suspects. This means being even more strategic in terms of how we communicate with key audiences, including publishing work on high-profile platforms where they get their information, and customizing our content to be more ‘digestible’ for different types of audiences.Published content on a diversity of platforms such as HuffPo, Forbes, ImpactAssets, HBR, Markets for Good, FastCoExist, TedWeekends, and Skoll World ForumStrategically harnessing all of our tools: our blog, social media, our newsletter, and posts on external sites is working to exponentially expand our influence and thus potentially our problem solving network.