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What could you accomplish if the whole community
was engaged with your work? What could you accomplish if your board was
learning all the time? What could you accomplish if you asked questions to test
your assumptions before moving forward? This month's newsletter is all about
accomplishing more - because your community is depending on
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Community
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Featured
Blog*: Boards as Learning Communities |
How can boards
create a culture of ongoing learning? That question is at the heart of Debra
Beck's blog, Laramie Board Learning
Project.
Some of our
favorite posts:
Curious
Boards: The First Recruitment Step
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Finding Time
for Board Learning
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it here
* This new column
will highlight blogs by some of the smartest thinkers in the social change
arena - Creating the Futures immersion course
graduates.
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Asking
Questions that Create Change |
In this
months Making Change interview, Jonathan Spack of Third Sector New
England shares his observations about the need for organizations to always be
testing the assumptions upon which they are basing their
decisions.
How many of his
questions is your organization asking?
Don't miss this
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Cool
Distraction
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Three minutes of
calm and beauty. A mountain, a galaxy - and a great story.
Watch the video,
and read the story of how Terje Sorgjerd made it. (And for added impact, watch
it full screen!) Watch it
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Thank you, as always, for the work
you do to make your communities better places to live. We wish for you all the
possibilities life holds. |
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