Archive for July, 2010
Convening - Less Art than Science
Spend a couple Google-minutes and look up “convening.” After the requisite bad matches and charlatans, Google, Bing or your search engine of choice gets you to some worthwhile information. I did this recently to reassure myself of what I know to be the basics of convening, something SCOPE works hard to be good at.
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Money and Community
After a meeting the other day, I talked with a woman about what she’d heard and how it relates to her work in her neighborhood. The meeting was called by government and focused on developing the community. I said something about how money is not the building block of a thriving community – communities start [...]