Facilitator: Michele McLellan, Circuit Rider, Knight Foundation Scribe: LuAnn Lovlin, Director of Communications, The Winnipeg Foundation Themes and things to think about as you get started: ·       Mission ·       Landscape ·       Audience + Engagement ·       Capacity – Digital ·       Partnerships ·       Sustainability A community inventory of what is already going on – things you don’t […]

Facilitator: Stephen Patrick, Executive Director, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions Scribe: Eva Penar, Director of Marketing and Communications, The Chicago Community Trust Stephen Patrick began the session citing an article from Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity.”  He discussed the importance of collective impact and the value of this process for social […]

Facilitator: Eric Schoenborn, Creative Director, Knight Foundation Scribe: Roberta King, Vice President, P.R. and Marketing, Grand Rapids Community Foundation Eric came to the Knight Foundation three years ago and still, the foundation is bringing in lots of new young talent. The foundation’s CEO embraces new ideas, welcomes young people and understands the challenges of innovation. […]

Facilitator: Stephen Goldsmith, Director, Innovation in American Government Program, Harvard University Scribe: Angelle Fouther, Senior Communications Officer, The Denver Foundation Stephen shared that he was the former Mayor of Indianapolis and Deputy Mayor of New York. Started dialogue with three observations on data collection and sharing: 1.     We are going through an inventorying and evolution […]

Facilitator: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Scribe: Cynthia Ragland, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Orange County Community Foundation Questions that interests Lucy: ·      What’s public ·      What’s private ·      Who decides? Civil societies are legal creatures built on two assumptions: 1. Money is the asset that matters. 2. The places that we gather are […]

Facilitator: Luis Villa, General Counsel, Wikimedia Foundation Scribe: Susan Knudten, communications consultant What is intellectual property? There are three general forms: ●      Trademark – protects individuals, i.e., a consumer knows when they are buying a Coke that it is a Coke. This maintains a brand, and should be protected aggressively. ●      Copyright – protects written […]

Join the engagement movement… Community Engagement Breakfast Tuesday, February 19th at 8:30 a.m. featuring: Summit County and Code for America Awarded $250,000 Knight Foundation Grant speakers: Patrick Bravo, Deputy Director, Department of Community & Economic Development, County of Summit  Alan Williams, Code for America Fellow  Dan Avery, Code for America Fellow Katie Lewis, Code for America […]