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Retain volunteers with intrinsically motivating work
Just because the work is important, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be rewarding. Civic associations depend upon volunteers to get their work done. But sometimes they trust that the purpose is enough to...
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A review of Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns. Field campaigning on a competitive 21st-century congressional race First, targeting. Specialists draw...
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Early in 2015 I completed a course in organising with Marshall Ganz: Leadership, Organizing and Action. Ganz’ deconstructs organising into five crafts: public narrative, relationships, structure,...
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A book review of Don’t Buy It by Anat Shenker-Osorio. Anat Shenker-Osorio, author of Don’t Buy It, was the darling of Progress 2013. During her keynote on messaging, the crowd was hanging off her...
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Introduction Framing is a crucial concept for people engaged in social change to understand. George Lakoff describes frames as “mental structures that shape the way we see the world.” Framing is the...
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Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty First Century America –...
Introduction I wanted to read Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa, the way that other normal people...
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Introduction Book reviews are a great means of sharing key learnings with others. As part of the Commons Library Skills Share sessions Joel Dignam ran a workshop on 27th July 2022 about the “noble art...
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Managing to Change the World: The Delegation Cycle
Introduction Recently delegation has been a bit weaker in my workplace. I’ve been guilty of this a bit myself, but I’ve also observed delegation between other team members also being weaker than it...
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