Convening AS Capacity Building for the New Age

PART 2 of 6

This article, originally written in the spring of 2019; revised in the midst of Covid; and as a result of feedback; has now become a 6 Part Series. May this new breakdown of the information create yet more pleasant reading for everyone.

“If programming WITHIN the system is important, the meta-programming OF the system itself is even more important.”

(Don’t know who said this, but it has stuck with me for years… and thought it fitting to introduce this article here)

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PART 2— Questions we’re asking

So… What really ARE the questions guiding us?…

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Social Innovation and Solutions Finance Strategy to empower communities?

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Social Innovation and Solutions Finance Strategy to empower all of us to BE IN or ENGAGE AS community en masse?

To us, these are different, and the latter is more important yet relevant to both camps as “inclusiveness” conversations.

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Because influence, and the right to take initiative is rooted in an assumption of healthy agency.

It presumes that an individual (regardless of background) has had a previously life-affirming and formative experience of being able to contribute in some way to a collective outcome…