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Seven Principles for Effective and Healthy Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships

In this article, authors Herman Brouwer, Minu Hemmati and Jim Woodhill share seven principles and practices for helping Multi-Stakeholder Networks work in effective and healthy ways…

Tool – Impact Storytelling – The STAR Technique

The Arukah network uses storytelling as one of the ways that it raises awareness, inspires others, and creates change. It recommends using a “STAR” Storytelling model to create simple, high-impact stories…

What’s Love Got to Do With It

Love has the power to transform the toughest communities and challenges. Within networks, love in an essential ingredient that can transform every relationship, resource, talent and vision it touches…

Designed for Impact: How Design Thinking Helps Networks Take on Complex Challenges

Mark Avery shows how design thinking tools can help networks better understand their work’s context, increase engagement, strengthen collaboration, and improve the probability of a viable solution…

Cracking the Network Code: Four Principles for Grantmakers

The authors share four mindset shifts needed for grantmakers to be an effective network participant and offer practical recommendations for how grantmakers can support networks….

Tool – Mapping Your Network

Social Network Mapping is a powerful way to visualize your network’s connections and interactions. To simplify the practice of network mapping, Netweaver has compiled a free module of five different hand-drawn network mapping activities that are simple for a network to use…

Building Powerful Partnerships

This blog post from Bekele Shanko and John Becker of GACX is written as a letter to a church planter in Europe. In it, they share five principles for starting powerful church planting partnerships…

Trust in Loose and Tight Cultures

The ability to instill trust is a hallmark of successful global leaders. Cultural differences and perceptions of trust can make this difficult. This article shows how new trust-building behaviors can be developed when collaborating in cross- cultural situations…

Smarter Grantmaking Playbook – Collaborate for Greater Impact

In 2015, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) developed the Smarter GrantMaking Playbook. A particularly relevant section of the Playbook is the “Collaborate for Greater Impact” section. This section looks at how Grantmakers can effectively support collaborative efforts…

The Transformative Power of Networks

Networks of networks have huge potential. Transformation or system shifting requires networks to be involved in networks of networks that are working at different levels. This allows for innovation, knowledge and resource sharing etc….

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