Thank you Mary Jean for sharing these important lessons. What is telling is how aware advocates of collective impact need to be of the context and the perspectives of others. This requires both great inquiry skills and a lot of empathy. And exercising those skills take a lot of time and commitment.
I encourage stakeholders to assess whether the climate is right for collaboration; and to consider who within the system has the capacity to alter the climate. Philanthropy can do a lot to accelerate climate change within systems and make them more conducive to collaboration.
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BY Chris Thompson
ON August 19, 2014 08:02 AM
Thank you Mary Jean for sharing these important lessons. What is telling is how aware advocates of collective impact need to be of the context and the perspectives of others. This requires both great inquiry skills and a lot of empathy. And exercising those skills take a lot of time and commitment.
I encourage stakeholders to assess whether the climate is right for collaboration; and to consider who within the system has the capacity to alter the climate. Philanthropy can do a lot to accelerate climate change within systems and make them more conducive to collaboration.