This blog also appears on the #ShiftThePower Treehouse.    In 2024, I attended a meeting in Indonesia on alternative measurement approaches hosted by the GFCF. Colleagues from around the world gathered to explore how we might understand, distill and celebrate knowledge in ways that made sense to our communities. One term kept surfacing: *logframes* – short for Logical Framework Approach (LFA). For many in the room, it symbolized a legacy of bureaucratic control and knowledge extraction, disconnected from lived realities. As someone working in community foundations in Australia, I was struck by how little we used or even talked about logframes. So back in...

This blog originally appeared on the website of the Interaction Institute for Social Change.   “Connections create value. The social era will reward those organizations that realize they don’t create value all by  themselves. If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting people, ideas and things.” – Nilofer Merchant (entrepreneur, business strategist, author)   Our new Communications Manager, Sandra Herrera, asked a great question the other day: “Why is network weaving needed now?” She wasn’t offering this as a doubtful challenge, but to help us to hone our messaging around why more people should consider the power of tending to connectivity...