Kuumeaaloha Gomes Discusses Privilege and Collaboration
  1. Kuumeaaloha Gomes Discusses Privilege and Collaboration

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    Featured Video: In this interview, Kuumeaaloha Gomes talks about the “privilege walk”, a method that helps individuals understand how personal power and privilege affects collaborative and group processes. This interview supplements video from a Big Island Aelike workshop (available for viewing on the website.)

  2. Red Flags in Collaborative Processes

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    Red flags are hazard indicators. They are storm warnings that suggest possible dangers that could jeopardize the success of an intended collaboration process.  Some flags may turn into showstoppers. Others could be game-changers or potentially have other rippling or cascade effects. Peter Adler contributed this list of 32 different red flags. Do these look familiar? What […]

  3. A Case Study: Participatory Budgeting in Chicago

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    Posted with permission by Groundwork Chicago’s 49th Ward is better known as Rogers Park. It’s a neighborhood of middle-class houses and apartment buildings, home to Loyola University. It’s known for diversity and an affordable, laid-back kind of cool. But the 49th has a new claim to fame: In 2009, the ward’s alderman, Joe Moore, became the first elected […]

  4. Collective Impact

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    Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. For more on this topic, visit the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

  5. Collaboration: The Courage to Step into a Meaningful Mess

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    Collaboration: The Courage to Step into a Meaningful Mess, explores challenges commonly encountered in collaborative endeavors. The article was featured on the Berkana Institute website. Our appreciation to Alycia Lee of the Hub Amsterdam Collaboracy for permission to post this piece and to Lily Bloom Domingo for sharing the article with us.

  6. 2010 Resource Guide on Public Engagement

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    The 2010 Resource Guide on Public Engagement from the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD). The Guide is an introduction to collaboration and includes a number of resources on the topic.

  7. Facilitators' Credo

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    A Credo for Facilitators was put together by Peter Adler, John Barkai, Donna Ching, Dolores Foley, Holly Henderson, Kem Lowry, Tom Mitrano, and Jane Yamashiro in 1998. The statement grew out of a series of discussions about the use and occasional abuse of “facilitation” in the public, private, and civic sectors. The authors encourage readers to […]

  8. Building Trust

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    20 things you can do to help environmental stakeholder groups talk more effectively about science, culture, professional knowledge and community wisdom. By Peter S. Adler and Juliana E. Birkhoff, Ph.D. Click here to view the PDF.

  9. Cross Sector Collaboration Dilemmas and Tensions

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    A “strategy map” describes a sequence of phases associated with several types of cross-sector collaborations and some of the activities associated with each phase. In practice, no process “blueprint” describes precisely how a process may unfold. Nor can it anticipate all the process dilemmas or tensions that occur in the design and implementation of collaborative processes. Outlined below are some typical tensions that can occur. 

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