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Using Network Analysis to Tell Your Network’s Story
Using data to enhance a network’s story highlights the impact of collaboration amongst community members sharing a common goal. Networks can use data to demonstrate to partners, stakeholders, and funders how the quality of their partnerships are progressing over time and why working together is
Defusing and De-escalating Conflict in a Network
If you’re part of a network of organizations working towards a common goal, you know that conflict and discord is inevitable. While we often agree on a great deal, no two partners agree on everything. When making major decisions, about long-term strategy, goal-setting or funding,
How to Leverage Value in your network
People collaborate for a simple reason: We find value from building networks with other individuals and organizations. We can do more together than we can alone. However we often view value one-dimensionally through the context of our needs. For example, if we feel we need
How to Nurture a Culture of Exchange
Almost a decade ago, Dutch blogger Joitske Hulsebosch used a phrase in her blog that has stuck with me. The phrase has proved to be quite useful, and as relevant to networks today as back then. She wrote that the bigger challenge in a network
Understanding Perceptions of Relationships Makes Your Network Stronger
To Work Together Authentically, We Have To Be Comfortable With Knowing Perceptions Of Each Other A community partner on a project recently declared in a data meeting that “You cannot authentically engage people in a network unless you understand the perceptions we all have of
Weaving a Sector: Building Relationships to Transform a System
In his article A Nation of Weavers, published in the New York Times on February 18, 2019, David Brooks articulates a precious opportunity: “If you can change the culture, you can change behavior on a large scale.” Brooks is referring to a broken culture creating
What is Community-Led Innovation?
Writing from a desk at a company that identifies as a Social Enterprise & Technology Start-Up, it might sound counterintuitive to say that we at Visible Network Labs do not believe that all “innovation” is synonymous with “technology.” Yes, we have amazing tech tools for
Building Cultures that Help us Collaborate
You wake up in the morning and turn off your alarm. You get dressed in your jeans and button up shirt. You balance your cup of coffee in your hand as you lock your door. You ride the subway, looking at the ground, listening to
Collective Impact is Hard, But We’re Not In the Dark: Advice for Policy Change
Collective impact is hard. If you’ve ever done it, you know it beyond a doubt. If you’ve never done it, just read about the five conditions of collective impact and you’ll be able to guess how hard it would be to make it all work.
The Value Non-Profits Bring to Cross-Sector Collaborations
While collaboration across organizations has always existed in one form or another, the need for organizations to engage with others for the pursuit of broad-reaching outcomes in the face of limited resources has increased substantially over the last thirty years. In particular, the non-profit sector
Thirty Best Network Quotes
Who doesn’t love a good quote? Through our workshops, webinars, forum and social media, we’ve collected quite a few of our favorite network quotes over the years. We decided to share thirty of our favorites that’ll give you plenty to reflect on and be inspired
Collective Impact is Hard, But We’re Not in the Dark: Advice on Measurement
Collective impact is hard. If you’ve ever done it, you know it beyond a doubt. If you’ve never done it, just read about the five conditions of collective impact and you’ll be able to guess how hard it would be to make it all work.
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