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How Healthy is Your Civil Society Sector?
	In How Healthy is Your Civil Society Sector?, Lester Salamon explains the new Johns Hopkins Global Civil Society Index, a set of indicators being developed to measure the capacity, sustainability, and impact of the civil society sector in various countries. Posted: 6/24/04; 11:22:55 AM #

Weaving Our Strategies Together

I met Jon Ramer recently at the Planetwork Conference. I introduced myself because I was impressed with his paper on Weaving Our Strategies Together (PDF), which develops a systems perspective on the issue of how organizations partner with each other. I have enormous concerns about the costs of collaboration and how they serve to isolate organizations from valuable connections and coordination. Ramer and his co-author Greg Steltenpohl move that conversation forward by looking at the social protocols of partnership formation. Posted: 6/24/04; 11:22:48 AM #