COINs 2010 Workshop: Collaborative Social Change: Designing for Impact

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    Humanity United co-sponsored theevent, and Linda Guinee ofInteraction Institute for SocialChange facilitated. (Published onThe Connect U.S. Fundhttp://www.connectusfund.org/blogs/mapping-us-capacity-prevent-and-respond-mass-atrocities)

    Workshop Title:

    Collaborative Social Change: Designing for Impact

    Workshop Summary:As Clay Shirky writes in "Here Comes Everybody", We are living in themiddle of a remarkable increase in our abilityto share, to cooperate with one another, andto take collective action. Most of the barriersto group action have collapsed and withoutthose barriers we are free to explore new

    ways of gathering together and getting thingsdone.

    This interactive learning laboratory will offeran opportunity to explore practical ways toorganize people who want to solveproblems, enact visions, and further social

    justice. You will be introduced toframeworks, strategies and tools to helpyou design and host multi-stakeholder

    processes, while building networks thathave the broad-based and sustained impact called for by these challengingand promising times.

    Workshop Date and Time: Fri, Oct 8, 1:00pm-4:00pm, Session 2: CollectiveAction Track 3: Increasing Collaborative Capacity

    Presenter: Melinda Weekes brings a diverse set of skills toher work at IISC from professional experiences in law,

    community development, urban ministry and nonprofitconsulting. As a Senior Associate, she is engaged infacilitation, training and process design consulting. In hernative New York City, Melinda practiced law beforemoving to Boston to pursue additional graduate work andministerial training. Before joining the staff of IISC, her

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