Connecting to Change the World : Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact

Plastrik, Peter; Taylor, Madeleine; Cleveland, John

ISBN 10: 1610915321 / ISBN 13: 9781610915328

Published by Island Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connecting to Change the World : Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact
• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610915321
• ISBN 13: 9781610915328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive guide to creating and managing social-impact networks that tackle complex, unpredictable problems. Written by the three leading thinkers and practitioners in the non-profit field, this resource will help organisations enhance their reach and effectiveness. Something new and important is afoot. Non-profit and philanthropic organisations are under increasing pressure to do more and to do better to increase and improve productivity with fewer resources. Social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, non-profit organisations, and philanthropists now recognise that to achieve greater impact they must adopt a network-centric approach to solving difficult problems. Building networks of like-minded organisations and people offers them a way to weave together and create strong alliances that get better leverage, performance, and results than any single organisation is able to do. While the advantages of such networks are clear, there are few resources that offer easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors' deep experience with more than thirty successful network projects, Connecting to Change the World provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies, and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks. Readers will gain greater confidence and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities. Easily understandable and full of actionable advice, Connecting to Change the World is an informative guide to creating collaborative solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges society faces.

About the Author

Peter Plastrik is cofounder and President, Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a non-profit national network of community system innovators. A prolific author, Peter wrote Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government and The Reinventor's Fieldbook: Tools for Transforming Your Government with co-author David Osborne. Madeleine Beaubien Taylor, Ph.D., has conducted policy and evaluation research for the public and non-profit sectors since 1987. She has consulted to governments, universities, and foundations as well as to community-based nonprofits, on issues that include culture and the environment, community economic development and non-profit network-building. John Cleveland is Vice President and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national non-profit that develops and spreads scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems.