Network Impact's new resources
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Resources, tools and frameworks for network builders
Network Impact recently launched a new website that now houses our publications, network building tools and resources, as well as Field Notes with lessons from our work. You can also explore recent projects in all four of our areas of practice: Investing in Networks, Network Start Up & Design, Network Planning & Management, and Network Research & Evaluation.
For example, this practical tool: Stages of Network Development, describes how networks transition through five distinct stages of development. At each stage, network organizers focus on different priorities and have different questions about how to advance their network’s goals.
New book!
Connect > Innovate > Scale Up: How Networks Create System Change
Written in collaboration with Pete Plastrik and John Cleveland, Network Impact Founder Madeleine Taylor’s new book provides frameworks, insights, and advice about building systems-changing networks to develop social innovations and take them to scale.
Tapping into the experiences of more than 20 successful networks, the book tackles five key topics in depth:
Systems change
Development of social innovations
Pathways to scale
Design of networks
Social innovation network leadership
Foundations Launch $9 Million Fund to Support Regional ECD Networks
Over the last decade, in over a hundred countries across the globe, there has been a dramatic increase in collective capacity for cross-sector work to advance Early Childhood Development (ECD). Critical to this accomplishment have been four regional ECD networks.
A new donor collaborative established by Open Society Foundations, Porticus and the Oak Foundation, and hosted by the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, will support the critical work of these regional networks.
Network Impact supported the development of the new fund with a report that identifies the unique advantages of regional networks in the ECD sector, and explores how they can be leveraged for increased impact, especially in times of crisis and recovery.
Eight Network Design Decisions
Whether you are in the early stages of network development or contemplating a new strategic direction, you will need to make a core set of network design decisions. This tool introduces fundamental design questions for social impact networks and provides guidance on how to address them.
Our commitment.
As advocates for network organizing, we are committed to assist and learn from individuals, institutions, networks and social movements that are engaged in anti-racist work. This includes reflecting on ways that cultural assumptions rooted in racism or other systems of oppression may be manifest in the larger society and in our own practice. Learn more about how we approach our work.