Recorded on August 19, 2013 SPEAKERS: • June Holley, Principal, Network Weaver Consultants Network and author of The Network Weaver Handbook • Nadia Owusu, Senior Associate for Knowledge and Organizational Development, Living Cities • Tamir Novotny,Senior Policy Associate, Living Cities and EPIP-NY Steering Committee Member (Moderator) Open-Sourcing Social Change: Engaging networks for social justice and leadership development Our nation's social and economic challenges often appear intractable because so many policies, practices, and institutions interact in complex ways that yield inequitable results. As a result, social justice organizations are increasingly realizing that no one institution or sector is capable of addressing these problems on its own. With this challenge in mind, nonprofits, social enterprises and even governments are experimenting with strategies to "open-source social change" by mobilizing networks, co-creating innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems, sharing learnings from their work in real time, and engaging with non-traditional partners. During this webinar, we will examine what it means to open-source social change, explore examples of this work in practice, discuss ways to enact this approach in members' own work, and identify the opportunities this approach creates for leadership development for emerging practitioners of social justice work.

1. Emerging Practitioners
in Philanthropy
Open-Sourcing
Social Change
Webinar
August 19, 2013
Host: Kate Seely, EPIP (@kfseely)

2. EPIP
 Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
(EPIP) is a national network of
foundation professionals and social
entrepreneurs who strive for excellence
in the practice of philanthropy
 Our mission is to develop emerging
leaders committed to building a
just, equitable, and sustainable society.
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3. Housekeeping
 You’ll all be on mute.
 Calling in on the phone? Mute your
computer, please.
 Time for questions and conversation throughout.
 Chat your questions in.
 Or, tweet them, using #opensourcechange. If
you tweet a question in, please raise your hand
in your GoToWebinar menu.
 Use the chat box and chat directly to the
organizer if problems arise.
 We’ll be recording this webinar
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4. Your hosts…
Tamir Novotny,
Living Cities
(@tamirnovotny):
Moderator
Nadia Owusu,
Living Cities
(@nadiaowusu1)
June Holley,
Network Weaver
Consultants
(@juneholley)
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5. Emerging Practitioners
in Philanthropy
Framing Comments
Tamir Novotny, Living Cities/
EPIP-NY

6. Wickedly complex problems require
networked solutions
 Everyone is part of the problem
 Everyone has to be part of the
solution
 We need open-source approaches
to make this happen
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7. Guiding questions for today
 What does it mean to open-source
social change?
 How are organizations currently
approaching this work?
 How can practitioners advance open-
source approaches within and
outside their organizations?
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8. Emerging Practitioners
in Philanthropy
Network Weaving: An
Introduction
June Holley, Network Weaver

9. How do you define open-sourcing
social change, and how is it different
from how social justice
organizations, especially
foundations, usually work?
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12. Open sourcing social change is about
creating the kinds of networks where we
are able to access provocative different
perspectives, where we collectively
create an environment of thousands of
collaborative experiments that we all are
able to watch and learn from.
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13. Network LensGoals and Tactics
Systems & experiments
Organizational Lens
Systems & experiments
Relationships, syste
ms & experiments
Goals and Tactics
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14. What do we mean by networks?
These patterns
influence the
quality of
communication
and the likelihood
of collaboration
and innovation
Networks are sets of
relationships and
the patterns they
create
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15. Different network patterns
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16. Networks extend farther than we think
Intentional Network
Formal Network
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17. Monday, August 19, 2013
Smart Networks: Most helpful in promoting
collaboration & innovation
• Core consists
of clusters w
different
perspectives
who know &
trust each
other
• Periphery
draws in new
ideas &
resources
• This
represents a
Field of
Potential for
action
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Smart Networks are Self-organizing
Action
Many people initiate
experiments &
collaborations – as
opportunities arise
Move from small acts
to larger
Breakthroughs from
diversity and
learning
Successful
innovations spread
Leverage Points
Leverage Points
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20. Monday, August 19, 2013
Does your network look like this?
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22. Twosies build relationships
Small
Projects
build
skills
Large Projects
for impact
Project Ecosystem
Reflection
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23. 1993
2006
1000
50
Small projects
Larger projects
Tipping Point to
Self-Organization
& Innovation
0
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24. Network Leaders
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25. 4 Networks
Relationship
Network
Action
Network
Intentional
Network
Support
Network
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26. Monday, August 19, 2013
Widely Distributed Network
Leadership
Attention to Relationships
& Communication
Control
Goals
Control
Goals
Relationships
Revised Gibbs Triangle
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28. Close triangles
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29. Close triangles
Young Philanthropist
You
• Both interested in the same thing
• One can help the other out
Grassroots Organizer
Innovation!
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30. Your Role: Be Rhizomatic!
Set up communication
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31. What kind of network weaver are
you?
Connector Catalyst
Self-Organized
Project Coordinator
Network Guardian
Network Facilitator
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32. Emerging Practitioners
in Philanthropy
How Living Cities is Open-
Sourcing Social Change
Nadia Owusu
8/19/2013

33. Collective Impact is Who
We Are
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34. Building A “Network Effect”
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35. Expanding the Adjacent Possible
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36. Emerging Practitioners
in Philanthropy
DISCUSSION / Q&A
Open-Sourcing Social Change
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37. Discussion Question: What do you see
as the biggest barriers to open-sourcing
your work? (e.g., organizational culture;
skills; leadership)
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38. Follow-up Exercise
What’s one thing you could do following
this webinar to try to advance an open-
sourced approach to social change?
Examples:
 Propose a blog for EPIP National
 Close a triangle
 Use Twitter to engage a new potential
ally
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39. THANK YOU!
 Kate Seely: Kate@epip.org, @kfseely
 June Holley:
June@networkweaving.com, @juneholle
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 Nadia Owusu:
nowusu@livingcities.org, @nadiaowusu1
 Tamir Novotny:
tnovotny@livingcities.org, @tamirnovotn
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