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Open-Sourcing Social Change Webinar August 19, 2013 Host: Kate Seely, EPIP (@kfseely)
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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.
Transcript of EPIP Open Sourcing Social Change
Open-Sourcing Social ChangeWebinarAugust 19, 2013Host: Kate Seely, EPIP (@kfseely)
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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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Housekeeping You’ll all be on mute. Calling in on the phone? Mute your
computer, please. Time for questions and conversation
throughout. Chat your questions in. Or, tweet them, using #opensourcechange.
If you tweet a question in, please raise your hand in your GoToWebinar menu.
Use the chat box and chat directly to the organizer if problems arise.
We’ll be recording this webinar
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Your hosts…
Tamir Novotny, Living Cities
(@tamirnovotny):Moderator
Nadia Owusu, Living Cities
(@nadiaowusu1)
June Holley,Network Weaver
Consultants(@juneholley)
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Framing CommentsTamir Novotny, Living Cities/EPIP-NY
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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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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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Network Weaving: An IntroductionJune Holley, Network Weaver
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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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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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Network LensGoals and Tactics
Systems & experimentsOrganizational Lens
Systems & experimentsRelationships, systems & experiments
Goals and Tactics
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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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Different network patterns
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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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Leverage Point
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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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Twosies build relationships
SmallProjects
buildskills
Large Projectsfor impact
Project EcosystemReflection
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Small projectsLarger projects
Tipping Point toSelf-Organization
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Network Leaders
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4 Networks
Relationship Network
Action Network
Intentional Network
Support Network
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Widely Distributed Network Leadership
Attention to Relationships & Communication
Control
Goals
Rule
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Structure
Control
Goals
Relationships
Revised Gibbs Triangle
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Close triangles
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Close triangles
Young Philanthropist
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• Both interested in the same thing• One can help the other out
Grassroots Organizer
Innovation!
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Your Role: Be Rhizomatic!
Support Reflect
Coach Catalyze
Set up communication
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What kind of network weaver are you?
Connector Catalyst
Self-Organized Project Coordinator
Network Guardian
Network Facilitator
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How Living Cities is Open-Sourcing Social ChangeNadia Owusu8/19/2013
Collective Impact is Who We Are
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Expanding the Adjacent Possible
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DISCUSSION / Q&AOpen-Sourcing Social Change
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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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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
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THANK YOU! Kate Seely: [email protected], @kfseely June Holley:
[email protected], @juneholley
Nadia Owusu: [email protected], @nadiaowusu1
Tamir Novotny: [email protected], @tamirnovotny
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