Energize your change efforts with a new knowledge approach!
Knowledge work is all about shared meaning making. Knowledge Designs to Change partners with philanthropy professionals in foundations, funder collaboratives, philanthropy infrastructure and serving organizations, and learning/action networks to design and implement knowledge processes that strengthen their strategies and activate social change.
Maximize your change potential by targeting opportunities to align methods and social action.
Increase your change capacity by starting or refreshing a knowledge approach.
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Build your skills while implementing knowledge systems and practices for change.
Develop creative research approaches through knowledge partnerships that energize action.
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Host a Knowledge Discussion
Join Dr. Angela Frusciante of Knowledge Designs to Change to explore a brief history of knowledge work in the social sector; learn about entry points for aligning knowledge work with grant strategies for social change; and discuss the questions and possibilities for embracing shared meaning making in your own context.
This one-hour session includes informational materials and resources along with ample time for questions and facilitated group discussion that will surface the emerging knowledge practice of participants.
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Featured Resources
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Signature Offering
Is a Knowledge Opportunity Scan™ right for you?
Knowledge Opportunity Scan™ is a signature targeting process that is a great entry point for groups who want to strengthen or revisit and shift their change strategy. KOS helps you identify the places where focused inquiry, research, documentation, or structured dialogue can move your change strategy to greater impact.
If you answer YES to ANY of the following questions, a Knowledge Opportunity Scan™ could be right for you!
- Do you believe that the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors should be about positive social change?
- Do you want to strengthen your change strategy?
- Do you lean toward practice-based approaches to learning and growing?
- Do you like the idea that shared meaning-making is at the heart of change?