Nonprofit Program Design and Individual, Organizational, and Ecological Equity

By designing programs that required tens and perhaps even hundreds of people to fly, I was racking up metric tons without even flying the miles myself. I was designing learning communities, for instance, that were dispersing 185 metric tons or more of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere of our vulnerable planet! I want to take my work to scale, but not like this.

This is About Community Agreements (and Shared Leadership) (and Systems of Oppression)

In some situations, for some people, typical versions of community agreements are more than merely bogus (or even benign): they can be a tool of oppression and a means by which to protect abusers.

Strengthening OrgsLaurie Jones NeighborsJune 28, 2019communities of practice, patriarchy, racial justice, teaching, listening sessions, community agreements

A Generalist on Expertise (and Squirrels)

I could tell he thought I was a little nuts. "No," he insisted. "Separate diseases, separate expertise."

Promoting InnovationLaurie Jones NeighborsSeptember 4, 2018cognition, communities of practice, program development, social issues, health equity, stakeholders, ways of knowing, collaborative decision making

An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice

Communities of Practice tend to go awry when conveners and/or facilitators are not adept at the core conceptual components required for success, and the more often this happens in the philanthropic sector, the less likely participants are to enter the Community of Practice space in an open and optimistic way.

Promoting InnovationLaurie Jones NeighborsFebruary 2, 2018consulting, education, evaluation, program development, communities of practice, learning communities, grounding theory

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