This piece originally appeared on the Global Greengrants Fund website.    What living systems can teach philanthropy about power, trust and change. Across philanthropy and international development, “systems change” has become a familiar ambition. But what if some of the ways we think about changing systems are still rooted in the very logic we need to leave behind? In a recent conversation, How Does Your Garden Grow? (see the recording below), hosted by Alliance Magazine, Barry Knight invited participants to move away from what he called a “machine mind” — the idea that complex social and ecological systems can be managed by pulling the...

  As one of the new Possible Now Stitching Fellows, I will be joining the other fellows and hundreds of others from the global #ShiftThePower community in Kathmandu for the Possible Now Summit. It is vital that AI forms a part of that conversation, given the impact it is already having in the world - for good and for ill. I plan to arrive with something more relevant than the typical “there are opportunities but also risks of harm” or “it’s complicated”, by hosting a series of conversations between now and November with another Fellow, Facundo Ibarlucía of Red Comunidades Rurales in Argentina. The...