From the Ontario Trillium Foundation 2009 Professional Development Conference
According to a recent Kellogg Foundation report, if an organization builds a culture that systematically supports innovation, the ideas will come. The key is to be deliberate, open to ideas from anywhere, comfortable with unpredictability, and generous in sharing learnings – all great approaches to building a social infrastructure for youth organizing and engagement in Ontario. Young people are already making significant contributions to their communities, and now is the time to sustain and increase that activity.
In March 2009, OTF partnered with the Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada to create the conditions that would allow youth-led and youth-serving organizations to connect with each other, share resources and develop new knowledge and practices. 50 young people from diverse sectors and groups agreed on the need for a coordinated provincial model, but where they go from there is deliberately unplanned. No required changes have been identified up front, and no expected outcomes have been proposed. The only certainty is that a strong foundation is being built for future generations. Work through a fascinating case study on this unique process to find out more about:
- the five stages of intentional innovation;
- thinking big and trusting to “wisdom of crowds”;
- the definition of a social infrastructure; and
- the kind of supports needed by youth to strengthen their work
Presenters:
Abe Drennan, Program Director, The Switch Yard Centre
Arti Freeman, OTF Program Manager, Province-Wide,
Washington State University
Washington Rural Pathways to Prosperity Conference
Washington State University’s (WSU) Rural Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a statewide economic development leadership conference that uses a unique approach to reach rural communities, revive the economy, and strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. P2P applies the WSU Distributed Conference Model (DCM), which uses technology to connect multiple sites simultaneously to create a groundswell of self-motivated, rural entrepreneurship activity in communities across the state. Only in its second year, this conference has motivated communities to explore co-working spaces, entrepreneur clubs, a collaborative food hub and more, demonstrating WSU Extension’s leadership and convening power for rural economic development. The conference begins with an interactive webinar featuring a national expert who delivers content relevant to all of the geographically dispersed sites. Issues and opportunities introduced by the speaker as well as those identified by regional participants are addressed through well-designed and adaptable activities. Local community and business leaders, who receive DCM training by WSU faculty, serve as facilitators at the sites, guiding participants through work sessions.
Monica Babine, Senior Associate, Washington State University
Debra Hansen, County Director, Washington State University Extension
This presentation offers a framework for social media to help enhance mass collaboration efforts or small group collaboration, especially when combined with practices of face-to-face communication. It was presented to a two-workshop sponsored by Canada\'s Public Health Agency.
Strategic Doing and the 2d Curve: the Story of FlintEd Morrison
Bob brown, a leader in the Strategic Doing movement, explains how he has used Strategic Doing to transform neighborhoods in Flint over the past eight years.
International learning on Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Self-directed support has been developing since the 1960s - there is a long way still to go - here are some thoughts about lessons so far from around the world.
Washington State University
Washington Rural Pathways to Prosperity Conference
Washington State University’s (WSU) Rural Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is a statewide economic development leadership conference that uses a unique approach to reach rural communities, revive the economy, and strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. P2P applies the WSU Distributed Conference Model (DCM), which uses technology to connect multiple sites simultaneously to create a groundswell of self-motivated, rural entrepreneurship activity in communities across the state. Only in its second year, this conference has motivated communities to explore co-working spaces, entrepreneur clubs, a collaborative food hub and more, demonstrating WSU Extension’s leadership and convening power for rural economic development. The conference begins with an interactive webinar featuring a national expert who delivers content relevant to all of the geographically dispersed sites. Issues and opportunities introduced by the speaker as well as those identified by regional participants are addressed through well-designed and adaptable activities. Local community and business leaders, who receive DCM training by WSU faculty, serve as facilitators at the sites, guiding participants through work sessions.
Monica Babine, Senior Associate, Washington State University
Debra Hansen, County Director, Washington State University Extension
This presentation offers a framework for social media to help enhance mass collaboration efforts or small group collaboration, especially when combined with practices of face-to-face communication. It was presented to a two-workshop sponsored by Canada\'s Public Health Agency.
Strategic Doing and the 2d Curve: the Story of FlintEd Morrison
Bob brown, a leader in the Strategic Doing movement, explains how he has used Strategic Doing to transform neighborhoods in Flint over the past eight years.
International learning on Self-Directed SupportCitizen Network
Self-directed support has been developing since the 1960s - there is a long way still to go - here are some thoughts about lessons so far from around the world.
Slides for a talk I shared at KM Asia Conference in Hong Kong on the models & thinking that underpinned the design of Amplify to catalyse a learning organisation and culture of innovation and collaboration across business eco-systems
Oklahoma City: The Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
25 years after helping to launch Oklahoma City's rebirth, I returned to celebrate. Why? Because OKC is the birthplace of Strategic Doing.
From 1993-2000, I helped guide the civic leadership in the rebirth of their city. In the process, I worked on a new model of complex collaboration. It turns out we can build these complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules..
In my presentation, I explained how I took the lessons we learned from OKC and applied them in a wide range of really complex situations.
Now it’s an open source discipline we are spreading across the world with a growing network of universities.
My path with OKC's leadership is crossing again, and we have some exciting announcements coming.
Stay tuned.
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You can get more on the backstory in our book: https://lnkd.in/eqZSc5H
A Gender Transformative Approach: Why what and how?CGIAR
This presentation was given by Cynthia McDougall (WorldFish Center), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
IFPRI Gender Breakfast with CARE and WorldFish: Measuring Gender-Transformati...IFPRI Gender
Measuring Gender-Transformative Change in Agriculture: A review of the literature and promising practices
February 16, 2017
Presenters: Steven Cole, Cynthia McDougall, & Afrina Choudhury from WorldFish & the FISH CGIAR Research Program; Emily Hilenbrand & Pranati Mohanraj from CARE USA
Discussant: Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Gender inequalities are recognized as both a major driver of poverty and an impediment to agricultural development. Understanding complex processes of social change remains a critical challenge for effective agricultural development programming that advances gender equality. Gender transformative approaches represent a move beyond “business as usual” gender integration in programming towards the creation of an enabling social environment and more equitable formal and informal institutions that expand life choices for women and men.
At the heart of their work, WorldFish (in particular, through its FISH and Aquatic Agricultural Systems cross-cutting research program) and CARE USA (through its global Pathways to Empowerment agriculture program) strive to apply gender transformative approaches (GTA) in designing, implementing, and learning from agricultural development interventions. However, committing to GTA implementation approaches also requires a transformation of measurements and indicators of change, an area of research that remains relatively under-developed in the agriculture sector.
In this webinar, CARE and WorldFish Center jointly present a literature review of promising indicators and tools for measuring gender-transformative change in agriculture, along with some practical case studies and the implications of applying such approaches in practice.
Twyfords collaborative governance pathway; when business as usual is never li...Max Hardy
So what is involved in approaching something wickedly complex and involves many stakeholders with deeply held differing perspectives? Check out this presentation and consider whether the time is right to do something quite different. It might seem risky, but in our experience it is the least risky approach you could take.
Lifehack Labs - "How To Make A Difference" - Alex Hannant // Ākina Foundation...Lifehack HQ
Alex Hannant from Ākina Foundation presents "How To Make A Difference" at #LifehackLabs - a social innovation lab focused on improving youth wellbeing.
Covid-19 Webinar for Corporates: Rethinking Corporate Volunteering to support...Empact
The COVID-19 outbreak has undeniably impacted our social organisations – whether through a loss in donations or sales, cancellation of volunteering events, disruption in supplies, or forcing a push to innovate. As a result, non-profits and social enterprises are extremely concerned about their sustainability towards serving their respective communities.
In challenging times like these, corporates can definitely play a vital role in supporting these organisations by strengthening their capabilities and capacity through skills-based volunteering.
In this webinar, we share specific needs on-the-ground using the results of a Pulse Check conducted with our non-profit organisations and social enterprises. We also present corporate skills-based volunteering opportunities that may effectively contribute to their survival and sustainability.
Reflections on gender transformative approaches in agriculture – The promise ...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Franz Wong (KIT Royal Tropical Institute) and Rhiannon Pyburn (CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research) on 20 June 2019, as part of the webinar ‘Reflections on gender transformative approaches in agriculture – The promise and cautionary tales'.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more about this webinar at: https://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gta-2019/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
Digital education challenges for development are rarely related to the lack of technological solutions, but rather to the management of disruptive innovations among different organisational stakeholders.
Slides for a talk I shared at KM Asia Conference in Hong Kong on the models & thinking that underpinned the design of Amplify to catalyse a learning organisation and culture of innovation and collaboration across business eco-systems
Oklahoma City: The Birthplace of Strategic Doing Ed Morrison
25 years after helping to launch Oklahoma City's rebirth, I returned to celebrate. Why? Because OKC is the birthplace of Strategic Doing.
From 1993-2000, I helped guide the civic leadership in the rebirth of their city. In the process, I worked on a new model of complex collaboration. It turns out we can build these complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules..
In my presentation, I explained how I took the lessons we learned from OKC and applied them in a wide range of really complex situations.
Now it’s an open source discipline we are spreading across the world with a growing network of universities.
My path with OKC's leadership is crossing again, and we have some exciting announcements coming.
Stay tuned.
----
You can get more on the backstory in our book: https://lnkd.in/eqZSc5H
A Gender Transformative Approach: Why what and how?CGIAR
This presentation was given by Cynthia McDougall (WorldFish Center), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
IFPRI Gender Breakfast with CARE and WorldFish: Measuring Gender-Transformati...IFPRI Gender
Measuring Gender-Transformative Change in Agriculture: A review of the literature and promising practices
February 16, 2017
Presenters: Steven Cole, Cynthia McDougall, & Afrina Choudhury from WorldFish & the FISH CGIAR Research Program; Emily Hilenbrand & Pranati Mohanraj from CARE USA
Discussant: Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Gender inequalities are recognized as both a major driver of poverty and an impediment to agricultural development. Understanding complex processes of social change remains a critical challenge for effective agricultural development programming that advances gender equality. Gender transformative approaches represent a move beyond “business as usual” gender integration in programming towards the creation of an enabling social environment and more equitable formal and informal institutions that expand life choices for women and men.
At the heart of their work, WorldFish (in particular, through its FISH and Aquatic Agricultural Systems cross-cutting research program) and CARE USA (through its global Pathways to Empowerment agriculture program) strive to apply gender transformative approaches (GTA) in designing, implementing, and learning from agricultural development interventions. However, committing to GTA implementation approaches also requires a transformation of measurements and indicators of change, an area of research that remains relatively under-developed in the agriculture sector.
In this webinar, CARE and WorldFish Center jointly present a literature review of promising indicators and tools for measuring gender-transformative change in agriculture, along with some practical case studies and the implications of applying such approaches in practice.
Twyfords collaborative governance pathway; when business as usual is never li...Max Hardy
So what is involved in approaching something wickedly complex and involves many stakeholders with deeply held differing perspectives? Check out this presentation and consider whether the time is right to do something quite different. It might seem risky, but in our experience it is the least risky approach you could take.
Lifehack Labs - "How To Make A Difference" - Alex Hannant // Ākina Foundation...Lifehack HQ
Alex Hannant from Ākina Foundation presents "How To Make A Difference" at #LifehackLabs - a social innovation lab focused on improving youth wellbeing.
Covid-19 Webinar for Corporates: Rethinking Corporate Volunteering to support...Empact
The COVID-19 outbreak has undeniably impacted our social organisations – whether through a loss in donations or sales, cancellation of volunteering events, disruption in supplies, or forcing a push to innovate. As a result, non-profits and social enterprises are extremely concerned about their sustainability towards serving their respective communities.
In challenging times like these, corporates can definitely play a vital role in supporting these organisations by strengthening their capabilities and capacity through skills-based volunteering.
In this webinar, we share specific needs on-the-ground using the results of a Pulse Check conducted with our non-profit organisations and social enterprises. We also present corporate skills-based volunteering opportunities that may effectively contribute to their survival and sustainability.
Reflections on gender transformative approaches in agriculture – The promise ...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Franz Wong (KIT Royal Tropical Institute) and Rhiannon Pyburn (CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research) on 20 June 2019, as part of the webinar ‘Reflections on gender transformative approaches in agriculture – The promise and cautionary tales'.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more about this webinar at: https://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gta-2019/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
Digital education challenges for development are rarely related to the lack of technological solutions, but rather to the management of disruptive innovations among different organisational stakeholders.
Innovator's DNA - What makes top leaders innovation gurus? Unlock your innova...vedsta87
The Innovator's DNA - based on research conducted in the groundbreaking book by innovation gurus Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregerson and Clayton Christensen - unlocks the mystery behind the great leaders of innovative companies. What makes them tick? Surprisingly, we find that top innovative leaders share similar behavioral traits. They are questioners, experimenters, networkers - these behaviors drive their ability to be innovative.
Innovators are not "born with it" - research shows that only general intelligence is genetic, but creativity can be learned.
So then the question is: what about you? How can you train yourself to become an innovative leader, and flex your innovative muscles?
We provide the answers with the Innovator's DNA workshop and assessment program. Visit our website or the innovators dna site, or buy the book today. Our program trains leaders, teams, executives and senior managers to understand what drives innovation within them - and how to bring it out more regularly.
relayr provides the tools and the platform to allow businesses to extend the life of legacy equipment and bring it up to speed quickly and inexpensively, take existing product lines and give them the flexibility of collecting data analytics, and future proofing their investments. By delivering the ability to collect data from the past and leverage capabilities of the future, relayr is making digital transformation accessible to businesses right now.
Digital Transformation is a must! Start small and start now.
https://www.relayr.io
This presentation was given at the Agile Australia 2011 (http://www.agileaustralia.com/)
Startup businesses face significant risk in the search for a sustainable, profitable and scalable business model. Consequently, the success rate for Startups is low, making them a typically high risk investment. Agile methods offer a way of reducing the risk for both the technical implementation and the development of customers. This is achieved by increasing the ability for a Startup to adapt to change and to incorporate the lessons learned from early customer engagement. In this presentation the nature of technology Startups is examined and the application of Agile principles, practices and tools discussed.
7 Essential Services Every Data Center Solutions Provider Should HaveSirius
Migrating to a new data center isn’t just about getting more floor space, power and cooling for your IT equipment. Instead, it’s about getting the infrastructure and IT services that you need to be flexible, and to easily scale and meet changing business demands.
When you research data center solutions providers, find out what additional services they offer beyond just real estate, cooling and power. Additional services, ranging from managed services to migration to managed hosting, can help you keep pace with changing customer and business demands.
Learn about the seven essential services that your data center solutions provider should provide you in 2016 and beyond.
Strategy for the Thinking Leader (Digital Transformation) - Digital DNA Armag...Niall McKeown
A presentation from Niall McKeown from www.ionology.com describing what digital transformation is, how the implementation of technology is often not transformational and the difference between those 'doing digital' and 'digital innovators' and why the innovators are winning.
This session explains the processes involved with getting a peer program of the ground at St. Johns Youth Service in South Australia. A major component to getting the program running was a research project that explored which participation models work best for peer programs. The finding of this research is presented here.
If viewers would like to see the research paper from the project please visit www.stjohnsyouthservices.org.au.
This presentation was given by Bria Partridge, St. Johns Youth Service and Krystal Hancock, a young person.
Youth Arts Queensland and Volunteering QLD recently presented artspoken 2011: Queensland's bi-annual Regional Arts and Culture Conference, hosted by Arts Queensland in partnership with Bundaberg Regional Council.
Hosted by the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota; Mentoring Across Generations: Engaging Age 50+ Adults as Mentors; featuring Dr. Andrea Taylor, Temple University
Creativity and Inclusiveness, Well-Being, Socio-Emotional SkillsEduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Hannah Grainger-Clemson at the international conference “Fostering creativity in children and young people through education and culture” in Durham, United Kingdom on 4-5 September 2017.
Youth Empowerment - Supporting the Next Generation of Changemakers.pdfThe Mohua Show
Youth empowerment isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a fundamental necessity for building a sustainable and inclusive society. It’s about providing young people with the tools, resources, and opportunities they need to thrive and become catalysts for positive change. Let’s delve deeper into why youth empowerment is crucial and how we can support the next generation of changemakers.
For more such content visit: https://www.themohuashow.com/blog/
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Through Young Social Innovators' programmes, workshops and events, young people are helped to discover the social innovator within and unleash their potential as powerful catalysts for social change.
Research In Action #1 - Mentoring: A Key Resource for Promoting Positive Youth Development
This series was developed by MENTOR and translates the latest mentoring research into tangible strategies for mentoring practitioners. Research In Action (RIA) makes the best available research accessible and relevant to the mentoring field.
The practice of treating everyone fairly and justly regardless of age, with special consideration to the structural factors that privilege some age groups over others.
YouthSpeak is a global movement powered by AIESEC. YouthSpeak Insights report is a set of insights from over 160 000 young people's opinion about education, engagement, leadership, their vision on the future and sustainable development. By spring 2016 it is the biggest youth movement, aiming on finding an answer to the question: "How can we engage Millennials to take action?".
AIESEC in Finland has customized the data, comparing Finnish reality to the global data and regional analytics. The YouthSpeak Insights report is not an ultimate answer to all of the questions about youth. Based on these insights we are open to conversation about how can we engage young people in Finland to take action towards the development of Finnish society and themselves?
Stringing Lessons from leading change in personal life and in business. Identifying the unique characteristics to make you the right person to lead that CHANGE
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Interim results of our research into the experiences of charities working with children and young people in involving young people in governance. The research, based on qualitative interviews, explores the mechanisms in place to hear the voices of young people, some of the challenges and barriers that organisations have faced, success stories and plans for the future..
Collaboration: « The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy? » (La fin de la philant...The MasterCard Foundation
Jenn Miller résume les présentations et souligne les thèmes communs abordés par les trois conférenciers de manière à amorcer la discussion durant la séance sur la collaboration : « La fin de la philanthropie en solitaire? » (The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy?) à l’occasion de la conférence de Fondations philanthropiques Canada.
Une expérience régionale à Waterloo: Innovations communautaires ... un proces...The MasterCard Foundation
Une séance à la Conférence 2011 de Fondations philanthropiques Canada, « The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy? » (La fin de la philanthropie en solitaire?), présentait de nouvelles approches de collaboration entre divers bailleurs de fonds et leaders du secteur, qui ont mené à l'innovation et à une plus grande incidence.
Tracey Robertson, chef de programme régionale, FTO, a partagé son expérience en tant que membre d'une collaboration dynamique de bailleurs de fonds et de leaders communautaires à Waterloo, en Ontario. Influencés par la tradition mennonite de la région sur le plan de l'engagement communautaire et par la créativité du secteur de la haute technologie, les membres de cette collaboration unissent leurs efforts pour favoriser une résilience et une innovation accrues dans le secteur.
Jenn Miller recaps the presentations and highlights the themes in common from the three speakers, in order to start the discussion at the Philanthropic Foundations Canada 2011 Conference Session, Collaboration: The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy?
A Waterloo Regional Experiment: Community Innovations ... A Discovery ProcessThe MasterCard Foundation
Tracey Robertson, a Regional Program Manager with Ontario Trillium Foundation shared her experience as a member of a dynamic collaborative of funders and community leaders in Waterloo, Ontario during the Philanthropic Foundations Canada 2011 Conference. Influenced by the region’s Mennonite tradition of community engagement and the creativity of the high tech sector, this collaborative has been working together to support greater resilience and innovation in sector.
Une séance à la Conférence 2011 de Fondations philanthropiques Canada, « The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy? » (La fin de la philanthropie en solitaire?), présentait de nouvelles approches de collaboration entre divers bailleurs de fonds et leaders du secteur, qui ont mené à l'innovation et à une plus grande incidence.
Blair Dimock, directeur, Politiques, recherche et évaluation, à la Fondation Trillium de l'Ontario (FTO), et animateur de la séance, a commencé en mettant en lumière ce que la FTO a appris au sujet de la collaboration dans le secteur grâce à notre recherche et à nos subventions. (Enregistrement en français de la traduction de cette présentation anglaise.)
A session at the 2011 Philanthropic Foundations Canada Conference, “The End of Lone Ranger Philanthropy? “ explored new approaches to collaboration among diverse funders and sector leaders that have led to innovation and greater impact. Blair Dimock, Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Director of Policy, Research and Evaluation and the session moderator, kicked things off by highlighting what the foundation has learned about collaboration in the sector from our research and granting.
Presented by Kristopher Stevens, Executive Director, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association at the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation professional development conference
Presentation by Heather Miko-Kelly, Youth Projects & Volunteer Coordinator, Mind Your Mind, Family Service Thames Valley at the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation professional development conference.
Presentation by Karen Hutchinson, Executive Director, Caledon Countryside Alliance at the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation professional development conference.
Keynote address by Aissatou Diajhate, Director of Programmes, The Stephen Lewis Foundation at the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation professional development conference.
From the Ontario Trillium Foundation 2009 Professional Development Conference
For most of us, turning on a tap is an everyday occurrence, and we likely don’t think twice about it. For this session’s presenters, however, that simple act isn’t quite so simple.
Henry Lickers, Environmental Science Officer for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, is concerned about how dirty the water is – and what decades of industrial pollution in the St. Lawrence River have done to the health of both the Mohawk people and their economy. Veteran journalist Chris Wood wonders how much longer the tap will run at all, given that global warming is drying up lakes, aquifers and rivers all over the world, even as consumption rises. Both believe that poor “accounting” – the failure or unwillingness to accurately measure the environmental cost of progress – has allowed the problem to get this serious, and that action can and must be taken.
From local remediation to global conservation, each will share inspiring examples of workable solutions that can be implemented and individual choices that can be made, for the benefit of the natural world and future generations. At the end of the presentation, there will be a half hour for questions and answers.
Presenters:
Henry Lickers, Environmental Science Officer, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne; Member of Environment Canada's Science and Technology Advisory Council, International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board and Panel on Ecological Integrity of Canada's National Parks
Chris Wood, author, Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America; former Nation Editor, Maclean’s Magazine
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We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
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The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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CLASS 11 CBSE B.St Project AIDS TO TRADE - INSURANCE
Intentional Innovation
1. Intentional Innovation: Building a Youth Social Infrastructure in Ontario Arti Freeman: Program Manager The Ontario Trillium Foundation Abe Drennan: Program Director The Switch Yard Youth Centre The Celebrate Youth Movement OTF 2009 Conference November 5, 2009 Intentional Innovation: Building a Youth Social Infrastructure in Ontario
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7. Youth social infrastructure A social infrastructure for youth organizing encompasses a variety of different elements that work collectively to build capacity and sustainable support, placing power in the hands of young people in communities. Networking Tools and Resrouces Policy Advocacy Training Professional Development Shared Administration Shared Spaces Evaluation Learning
14. “ A great deal of innovation takes place at the edges and margins, as people and organizations faced with the greatest obstacles (and often the smallest resources) use ingenuity to improvise solutions and find the power to change the world around them. Foundations and donors have the unique positioning to help seed and spur these ideas, and to help them go to scale.” W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Editor's Notes
Our session is two fold. One is to talk about how foundations can engage in intentional innovation and we will demonstrate that using Youth Social Infrastructure project as a case study and secondly to talk about the Youth Social Infrastructure project iteslf.
Innovation is everywhere. We see it on TV advertisements, new technologies and in the social services delivered on the streets of Toronto, people and organizations are always creating new ideas, services, and products and adapting old ones to fit their changing circumstances. This is especially true in the social sector, where there is a need to innovate in order to provide new solutions to address pressing local problems. We see this in the emergence of social enterprises, micro finance and the like. However, innovation remains largely episodic in the social sector. Every day, individuals, social entrepreneurs, and organizations create ingenious solutions to local issues, yet many of the innovations are never realized and fail to achieve their transformative potential. The impact of innovations sometimes are hindered through piecemeal funding, under-resourced organizations, lack of technology, and structures that are set up for services and advocacy rather than for discovery. Innovation can be a rational management process with its own distinct set of processes, practices, and tools. In fact, research shows that this type of systematic innovation in an organization typically yields much more productive and sustainable ideas over time It is important for funders to have a clear sense of what innovation really means, or how to intentionally and consistently make it happen.
The Kellogg Foundation recently released a paper called Intentional Innovation which aims to to understand how being more deliberate about innovation could help foundations find new and better ways to imporove philanthropy and increase social impact. We didn’t realize it at the time but the the process by which we engaged in the deliberate exploration of building youth social infrastructure in Ontario is reflective of intentional innovation. As a foundation, we are typically a reactive funder and in the instances we are proactive, is to seek out applications to that will concretely address a certain issue. So launching into something like this where we know the issue but we don’t know how it is going to be addressed and what will be achieved from it is somewhat unprecedented but at the same time needed. We live in a time where the roles of the sectors are shifting, new technologies are emerging by the minute, and the number of uncertainties is growing, there is a concern that foundations could become less relevant and less effective if we don’t work even harder to examine old assumptions and refresh our approaches. As the social sector chagnes, there is a danger that by just continuing to fund the way we do it today, our efforts may no longer match the emerging realities of tomorrow. There is a need to identify and pioneer innovations in practice that will fit the challenges and opportunities of the future.
In March 2009, OTF partnered with the Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada Initiatives to create the conditions that would allow youth-led and youth-serving organizations to connect with each other, share resources and develop new knowledge and practices. 50 young people from diverse sectors and groups converged around the issue of how to best to support and transform youth organizing in Ontario. The group sensed the timing was right and agreed on the need for a coordinated provincial model. There were no pre conceived outcomes on our part and the next steps were deliberately unplanned in order to allow the emergence of a movement that is innovative, authentic and sustainable.
Youth have been a major beneficiary of OTF granting practices. Over one third of OTF grants benefit youth In order to better understand the current needs of youth in Ontario and identify opportunities to strengthen the impact of our granting in this area, OTF engaged the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement in 2006 in a research project which identified three main strenghts of the foundation in funding youth Youth engagement is a process that enables young people to be meaningfully engaged in the decisions that affect their lives and communities. Youth Engagement recognizes the significant contribution that youth can and do make in their communities. 4. OTF recognizes that youth engagement is a best practice to meet the needs of youth, including those considered at risk . OTF is also committed to supporting adult- led organizations to encourage youth leadership and engagement in the decision making of their programs and organizations as well as support the capacity of youth-led organizations to strengthen their programs, governance and operating systems. 5. In this light OTF collaborated with the Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada Initaitive to enhance the capacity of NFP and community sector to support youth engagement by collectively discovering how to best to transform and support youth organizing and engagement in Ontario.
Abe: Before we begin the case study its important to clarify what exactly is Youth Social Infrastructure: Youth Social Infrastructure is both concrete and cultural. Its not about just engineering the bridge but its about a cultural shift that needs to take place so that people cross the bridge. Moving from traditional client based youth work to youth organizing and youth engagement is a culture shift. Shared spaces is not a new concept but there is an opportunity in the youth sector for shared space to become more than just bricks and mortar infrastructure. It’s about youth led groups coming together and working together, sharing ideas and knowledge, that will help collectively sustain their work. In rural and urban communities across the province shared spaces are emerging that are distinct and dynamic. Shared spaces enable groups to be more efficient administratively, but also allow groups to reflect and collaborate in innovative ways in order to sustain their organizing work for future youth. We have heard that youth need concrete infrastructure to support people to organize themselves but Infrastructure means nothing unless there is a culture of change.
Abe: As mentioned before, Infrastructure means nothing unless there is a culture of change. In order for us to take the first step to cross the bridge, we must be prepared to challenge established ways of thinking. This work is seeking to shift institutional power dynamics that have tended to focus on underlying negative perceptions of youth. It is striving to build resiliency without reliance on traditional sociopolitical, institutionalized approaches. It includes a variety of initiatives, such as community-based projects and grassroots organizations that are engaging with youth in creative and meaningful ways. YSI has defined the difference between the Established approach and Emerging approach. What isn’t working? Why isn’t it working and how do we need to change in order for it to work better? It is really exciting to have the opportunity to create emergence.
Abe: Social infrastructure is not always visible. It’s found in the grey areas between people, between organizations, between missions, between websites, between skills, and between knowledge. It is the springboard which enables people to take action in unison. That’s why our vision of a social infrastructure to support youth-led and youth-centric work focuses on the journey rather than the results and why our mission is to simply harness the knowledge, skills and attitudes of a community that already exists and evolve into a community of practice This is a model that we came up with that identifies how a community of practice can operate. There are six elements of our vision: 1. Regular central gatherings bringing together all stakeholders from the most diverse physical, philosophical and methodological places 2. Autonomous satellite hubs made up of like-people and like-organizations, addressing like-issues – could be joined by geography, mission, age, etc. 3. Resources, including money, space, technology, research and expertise, ensuring that all stakeholders have equitable access and are able to participate by both giving to and receiving from the community of practice 4. One or many online communities networked to support communication, networking and knowledge-sharing between gatherings 5. A variety of people who are dedicated to various levels of knowledge-sharing and communication between gatherings on a voluntary basis 6. A variety of technological tools available between gatherings which support knowledge-sharing and communication Together these elements work in synergy to create social infrastructure, to build a community of practice and evolve in response to youth-led and youth-centric work.
Arti: The collaboration between OTF, Laidlaw Foundation and Tides Canada Initiatives emerged as a result of voices from the sector around the need for a youth social infrastructure as highlights of the foundations and pipelines report. While we sensed this was an important issue and that there was a transformation that needed to take place if we want to sustainably support youth engagement and organizing, we had many unanswered questions: What can we do together that is not possible on our own? What are the areas in youth organizing and engagement that are ripe for change across the province? How can we amplify what is already working, for positive impact, for all those who are leading in youth work in the province of Ontario? How can we build resilient community leaders and encourage our youth sector ‘change agents’? In order to explore these questions, we created a ‘container’, an environment instead of a product. The container allows for a network of individuals and organizations, led by youth or serving youth, to connect with each other and create the relationships needed to share resources and develop new knowledge and practices. We created the space for innovation to take place and specifically tapped into the end users of the innovation, the youth themselves. Abe: On March 31st and April 1 st 2009, 50 young people came together from across the province who were thinking about or already building youth social infrastructure in Ontario. It was an exciting and dynamic two days. We identified key non-negotiables, stakeholders (who they are and what they are doing) and agreed there was support within the sector to drive the process forward to a coordinated provincial model. A series of steps were identified: Emergence of a support system (core team) that decided to take the next step not knowing what that would be yet Identified everyone involved: circle of supporters, cheering from the sidelines, participants… they basically gave the core team the signal to go ahead Through the help of Justine at OTF we were able to continue the momentum through the use of new technology… Community Zero site… Doodling, mapping excercices, creating viral e-mails etc. The core team has now met several times both face to face, via the web and teleconferencing. A larger stakeholder gathering is being planned for the Spring 2010 in order to allow for the emergence of a group of connectors from the grassroots that will continue to build a community of practice in the sector. In this way, we are building social infrastructure while exploring the process moving forward. Arti: As a funder engaged in this process, we need to embrace failure. As funders we are holding the space and creating conditions for something to emerge but are not sure yet what that is. Will transformation take place, will a sustained community of practice emerge? As we engage in the process we are documenting our learning both successes and failures. Abe: The initial collaborative of Tides, Laidlaw and OTF is now a funder participant collaborative which includes: Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada The New Mentality (youth engagement project) Youth Action Network Motivate Canada For Youth Initaitive Sketch Celebrate Youth Movement London Youth Council The group continues to meet and reflect. Part of this process is to make adjustments if necessary should something fail.
Arti: We have mentioned the word emerge a few times during this presentation. The work we are engaged in to build youth social infrastructure in Ontario is rooted in the principle of emergence. Emergence is a powerful phenomenon. The rise of globalization, the collapse of the soviet union and other large movements are the result of emergence. As a funder we ask ourselves how we can create the conditions for this type of work to flourish? In nature, change never happens as a result of top-down, pre-conceived plans, or from the mandate of any single individual or boss. Change begins as local actions spring up simultaneously in many different areas. It is the quality of relationships that allows people to go deeper and deeper – it becomes a way of operating built on trust. It is these connections that will sustain the work and keep the momentum
Abe: The Root of emergence is the diversity of stakeholders present; the multiplicity of perspectives represented. Blind men and elephant story: There were 4 blind men and they were brought to an elephant and asked to describe it. Each went out and felt a different part of the elephant. The first blind men touched the elephant’s leg and reported that it felt like a pillar. The second blind man touched the elephant’s tummy and described it as a wall. The third blind man touched the elephant’s ear and said that it was a piece of cloth. The fourth blind man held on to the tail and described the elephant as a piece of rope. And all of them ran into a hot argument about the "appearance" of an elephant. It was the same elephant but they had different perspectives. There is no right and wrong but it is the collective knowledge, the multiple perspectives that create the bigger picture.
Arti and Abe: Our learning resonates with the research of the Kellogg Foundation who identified these five stages. If we want to find new ways of addressing problems we need to by systematic and deliberate about innovation. Demonstrate leadership and intentionality; Democratize innovation, experiment and learn, run the risk; Collaborate and network, measure and be accountable; Abe: Describe how the gathering supported innovation: what was your sense as to how OTF handled the gathering? OTF, Laidlaw and Tides created a space at the initial gathering that really set the conditions for bringing out the best in all of us. It allowed for creative thinking and exciting contributions. Nothing was in the way. No hierarchy or governance. It was explosive and dynamic. We felt like pioneers who were really pushing established boundaries.. We had a great facilitator who kept the momentum going. 2. Developing new ideas about what will it take to solve problem you hope to address: How do we combine social innovation with building structures and systems? What are the opportunities that present themselves to us: for example focusing on convening over grantmaking or funding next level thinking rather than having them group come in with thinking before receiving funding? Abe describe how the opportunity provided by OTF to convene to move ideas forward; to decide as a core team, etc. How that has helped? OTF has been instrumental is allowing the process to move forward. Convening over the past 9 months has allowed us to dive deeper into the process and develop stronger relationships. It has been vital in allowing emergence to happen. Face to face meetings, teleconferencing and e-mailing back and forth have sustained the momentum. Without the opportunity to come together in various ways, driving the process forward would be incredibly difficult if not impossible. 3. Use internal group of experts – small group brainstorming Connect with key pockets of expertise outside org Open up innovation process to anyone who might be able to contribute – tap into wisdom of crowds with test-market feedback, innovation competitions, wikis. Involving a wide range of stakeholders Abe explain how the entire room collectively decided to move forward and sanctioned the core team. How the core team has worked collectively together to move forward, let in new people who are interested, etc. In order to take the process to the next step, we were asked by the facilitator Tim Merry, to decide upon our level of commitment by stepping into a series of rings that identified our level of commitment. Essentially the core team volunteered themselves by stepping into the middle. It has been a very open and organic process whereby everyone’s opinions are equally valued and heard. The online community has allowed for a variety of input from various organizations and individuals who are doing youth led work. Resources and knowledge sharing is happening all the time and people are welcomed to provide input in the process. 4. Rapid prototyping = quickly testing rough versions and using test data to make improvements saves time, can prevent costly errors of trying to build perfect prototype over long period don’t just judge facts of success or failure: focus on active learning and adaptation assemble resources – have financial, technological and human resources ready to test idea scan externally to see how new idea will complement others IN our case we aren’t testing a product but a process. The ability to create the right environment to emerge a community of practice. We tested our thoughts on other funders and youth networks prior to the first gathering. The first gathering was also a test for us to see if movement will take place and it did. At the time we werent sure and although we hope we have the right container it is hard to say if a community of practice will emerge from the next gathering or not. 5. Don’t assume brilliant idea will spread automatically Recognize inter-related stakeholders needed to break status quo and create new system. Abe: The upcoming gathering being planned will bring in a variety of stakeholders representing multiple sectors, cultures and demographics. We recognize that if a culture shift is to take place everyone needs to be involved in some capacity not just the youth. The network of youth will enable a community of practice to share knowledge, ideas, resources that will sustain youth work in the future.