Heather Grant-McLeod shares the highlights from a recent meeting of the “network” approach to solving some of society’s problems.
Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. – See more at: http://www.bethkanter.org/capacity-social-change/#sthash.xYX5VH3N.dpuf
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