Center for Network Impact

The practice of building networks of organizations and individuals to develop social innovations, increase efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofits, and reweave the social fabric of communities is spreading worldwide.

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Most people are natural networkers, but it takes real know-how and skills to develop and grow networks that achieve large-scale social impact. Led by our partner, Madeleine Taylor , an anthropologist and network consultant in Boston, we are accelerating and spreading the use of networks for achieving increased social impact. Working with a variety of real-world networks--advocacy and policy-change networks; social service production networks (e.g., homelessness); regional networks of innovators; community networks for grassroots leadership development--while studying network theory and best practice, we have produced a survey of network building for social change and have three projects underway:


	Orientation To Networks
	High-level overview for people new to the concept of applying networks to social systems.
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	Designing and Building Networks
	Operational strategies and practical advice for the development of networks for social change.
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	Network Evaluation
	Deploying a social purpose network is just the beginning. Measuring and refining helps amplify impact and sustainability.
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	A Guide to Online Outreach Tools
	Cause Communications produced this briefing that outlines the strengths of specific Web tools in relation to communications strategies.
	http://www.hersheycause.com/pdf/online-outreach-tools-guide.pdfhttp://www.hersheycause.com/pdf/online-outreach-tools-guide.pdf

	A Guide to Online Outreach Tools
	Cause Communications produced this briefing that outlines the strengths of specific Web tools in relation to communications strategies.
	http://www.hersheycause.com/clients-cause.php

Topic Tags: connectivity, innovation networks, networks, production networks, social impact, social networks

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