As funders we often talk about supporting movements – the environmental movement, women’s movement, etc. Yet how do we do that? What does it mean to support a movement with grants? We can learn from movements that have been successful in the past. The civil rights movement in the United States is a classic example.… Continue reading Supporting Social Movements With Grantmaking
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Tools for taking social complexity seriously
When I first started hearing folks talking about complexity and social change 10-15 years ago, I figured that was fine for the ecologists and physicists, but not much use to me. Yet the more I heard, the more the ideas started making intuitive sense to me. When you’re working for social change, you’re mucking with… Continue reading Tools for taking social complexity seriously
Systems Stress Test
Systems Stress Test I swear this won’t be another blog about a virus. OK, maybe a little bit. A few years back I wrote about learning to see systems – food systems, transportation systems, financial systems, governance systems, etc. In order to build our social resilience, we’ve got to know what systems we rely on,… Continue reading Systems Stress Test