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Funders Collaborative Companion Guide

I continue to be a great fan of the thoughtful work being done by GrantCraft. I recently had the chance to read their Funders Collaborative Companion Guide and I recommend it highly to funders and grantees alike. I particularly enjoyed their key insights related to sustaining and deepening collaborations once they've been formed, which include: seeing the big picture, creating trust and candor, accelerating the learning curve, promoting cooperation with corporate players, expanding the partnership, and coordinating funding. Posted: 7/2/07; 2:42:25 PM #

2007 Mothers' Index

I'm constantly on the lookout for cross cutting ideas, whether they are strategies, tactics, models, or issues. Given that 75 years of field experience has taught us that the quality of children's lives depends on the health, security and well-being of their mothers, I think there are a lot of organizations that might find the 2007 Mothers' Index to be valuable. What this index does, among other things, is assess the countries of the world according to various benchmarks that relate to motherhood, and rank them according to where it would be best and worst to be a mother. My birthplace (Sweden) is at the top. The very bottom ranks include Niger, Sierra Leone, and Yemen. The United States - probably because it has both first and third world economies in it - is somewhere in the middle. Posted: 7/2/07; 2:36:35 PM #

How Fear of Failure Destroys Success
	Adrian Savage - the author of Slow Leadership - has written a great little article on How Fear of Failure Destroys Success. He looks at cultures of perfection, clinging to the past, and why high achievers fail. I have found that it's very easy to get civil society leaders to agree with this notion, but very difficult to get anyone to act on it. Posted: 7/2/07; 2:18:50 PM #