I remember the first time I heard the word philanthropy. It was as a child watching the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard, we find out later in the movie is an ordinary man with a lot of social media, just trying to do the work of being the wizard everyone wants. In the scene I am thinking of, the wizard is explaining what a philanthropist is and he says it means a “good deed doer.”
Those of us who work in ...
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Fast-paced; Information and technology rich; Institutional lite; High stakes; Quick mobilization; Decentralized voice and action; Multi-tasked to the max. Whether we are millennials by generation or not, this is our contemporary context. This is where civic sector leaders live. This is also where equity and change approaches often die amidst what feels like strategy overload – the constant flow of “new” ideas, packaged models, and ready-made techniques.
Colleagues often ask me why I say knowledge instead of learning. In this article, ...
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Welcome to Knowledge Designs to Change! We are an active, engaged, consulting practice dedicated to working with passionate, committed organizations who want to integrate knowledge processes intimately with strategies for change.
The KD2Change blog will soon invite experience and musings in response to entries about knowledge construction, knowledge as philanthropic investment, methods for strategy and learning, and ideas related to social change.
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