Author Archives: Daniel Dow

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….

A New Equation for Collaboration in Mission

This article by Phil Miglioratti asks what “Great Collaborations” might look like in light of the other “Greats” in the bible. “Could it be that The Great Commission plus the Great Commandment added to a Great Commitment, multiplied by Great Collaborations results in Great Communities (GC + GC + GC) X GC = GC)?…

4 Keys to Building Trust on Teams

In these two articles on building trust and avoiding cultural pitfalls, KnowledgeWorkx explores how terms like reliability, openness, respect, and honesty — that we normally use to talk about building trust on a team — can mean different things to team members from different cultures….

Don’t Fall for These 5 Network Myths

In this article on “Network Myths”, Alex Derr discusses the “network myths” that continue to stick around, despite the best evidence to the contrary. Here is a summary of five Network Myths you may have heard before, along with what the science really says…

Patterns of Collaboration

Networks must answer this question first! “What kind of collaboration will move you and your partners to your shared goal?” As long as both partners agree to the purpose and pattern of their collaboration, then the other questions are much easier to ask—and answer in context…

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