Building Leadership Capacity in Faith-Based Economic Development

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Shown L to R: Carlos Steward, Asst. Dir., Recreation; Lisa Braun, Executive Director; and Dawn Brown, Asst. Dir., Workforce Development at Ohio City Power with Lee Kay, Grant Coach and Consultant at Neighborhood Connections. Image Credit: Lisa Braun

Ohio City Power is an emerging place-based and virtual network that provides recreation, skills training and employment opportunities for the homeless and jobless at St. Paul's Church and Community Outreach in Ohio City, Ohio.

Ohio City Power programs strengthen community projects, relationships and collaborations for leadership capacity in faith-based economic development. 

2012 programs focus on:
  • The development of Ohio City Power projects to address neighborhood issues;
  • Encouraging new and stronger relationships between Ohio City community residents and local leaders; and, 
  • Supporting emergent opportunities for the development of community leadership, organizational  and community capacity building. 
Ohio City Power itself is comprised of a small core leadership network embedded in other supporting and evolving sponsor, partner and collaborating networks.

Open models such as Ohio City Power connect assets, talent and resources to transformative creative initiatives and business development for regional prosperity.

Ohio City Power 2011-2012 activities are funded by a grant from Neighborhood Connections, an affiliated program of the Cleveland Foundation and member of Grassroots Grantsmakers, an international affinity group for grassroots funders.

On Tuesday February 1, 2012, Ohio City Power leaders (shown above) met with Lee Kay, Grant Coach and Consultant at Neighborhood Connections to talk about how Ohio City Power programs are growing and developing.

Stop by to learn more, and contribute your insights and knowledge to improve this network of practice by visiting  http://www.ohiocitypower.net/ 

COINs 2010 Conference Community: A Visual Portrait

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Screenshot: COINs Conference Collection on Flickr

Images can be a powerful tool to communicate a community's identity and culture for social network attraction. 

Photographer Alice Merkel captures COINs 2010 Conference community connectivity, conversations, and capacity building in this I-Open Collection on Flickr.  

The collection portrays community creativity and collaboration present in five areas of the Swarm Creativity Framework - a transfer of I-Open's Innovation Framework, a heuristic model of investment in Open Source Economic Development.

Curating images focused on a community's core assets generates higher levels of authentic communications, builds audience trust, and strengthens transparency for network attraction.

COINs-collaborative innovation networks Conferences are hosted in partnership by the Hyperwerk Institute of Postindustrial Design, Basel, Switzerland; Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia; Wayne State University School of Engineering, Detroit, Michigan; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Collective Intelligence, Boston, Massachusetts.

To learn more about this research-industry community visit the COINs Conference web site here. 

Connect with I-Open at:

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Brainpower: Librarians of the Future

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Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Matthew Theobald (1970-2010), Founder, Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) and CEO, Internous, talks about the role of librarians in the future.

Drawing from his professional career in Library Science, Matt describes an exciting future for librarians as the community connectors between citizens, entrepreneurs, government and organization leaders and knowledge.

Read the article The Public Library Manifesto: Why Libraries Matter and How We Can Save Them by David Morris to learn more about the deep value every library and librarian contributes to advancing civil, sustainable community.

Brainpower: Librarians of the Future from I-Open on Vimeo.

Learn from the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:

    •    Facebook I-Open http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Open/170817416694?ref=ts
    •    Flickr     http://www.flickr.com/people/iopen/
    •    Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/iopen
    •    Livestream http://www.livestream.com/iopen/
    •    Posterous http://i-open.posterous.com/
    •    Scribd http://www.scribd.com/I-Open
    •    Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
    •    Twitter http://twitter.com/iopen2
    •    Vimeo http://tiny.cc/106p0
    •    You Tube http://tiny.cc/j5rse
 
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Growing Communities of Compassion - A Sustainable Framework

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Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr 

Sudhir Raghupathy, Thought Leader in Organization Design, shares a vision of the power of sustainable, collaborative, creative community organized by principles of servant leadership and sharing.

Sudhir's research focuses on frameworks of understanding to identify and align resources for constructive knowledge sharing and next step collaborative action.

You can find Sudhir on Twitter at @skraghupathy, Friend him on Facebook and connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn about Cleveland EchoTuesday on MeetUp, to participate in a structured networking event led by Sudhir for sustainable business leaders on the fourth Tuesday of each month in cities across the country.

Growing Communities of Compassion from I-Open on Vimeo.

Learn the wisdom of civic leaders across these I-Open communities:  

Copyright 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Betsey Merkel and The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open), 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118

COINs 2010 Conference Survey

(Post updated 10-21-10)

We've posted a COINs 2010 Conference Survey to the new Facebook landing page Collaborative Innovation Networks: COINs Conference. 

Help us to improve your access to knowledge and innovation at future COINs Conferences by responding to the survey questions below:

1)    How did you learn about COINs 2010?

a.    Facebook

b.    Twitter

c.    Friend or colleague

d.    Other

2)    What did you like most about your COINs 2010 Conference Face2Face and Online experiences?

3)    Who would you like to connect to at COINs 2011 who you are not?

4)    What would you like to see happen at COINs 2011?

5)    Is there anything you would like to add?

6)    If you have any photos from the COINs 2010 Conference that you would like to share, please send them to coinsconference@gmail.com

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Please add your responses in the comment window located below this post.

How to Share Your I-Open Interview Information

I-Open interviews gather information through the lens of the Innovation Framework, a heuristic map for thinking and doing in Open Source Economic Development.

This document offers starting points to share your interview information with your networks.

You can learn more about industry innovation by listening to I-Open interviews and conversations and reading transcriptions on Scribd.


 


From Jack Ricchiuto: the Power of Conversations

Based in Northeast Ohio, Jack Ricchiuto is a national thought leader in the design of conversations.

Not long ago conversations were considered a dangerous waste of time.

Today, conversations offer new value to strengthen transparency, a modern imperative for industry transformation.

With new tools, skills and good habits, communities can generate quality solutions to respond to unexpected social, economic, and environmental issues, as well as recognize abundant enterprise opportunities.

Our thanks to Jack and many other practice leaders as we fine tune our capacity to engage in conversation and collaborate. 

Learn more about Jack and his work at DesigningLife.


 

 

The Australian Community Network

The main benefit of this social network is that it helps to breed activity in the community, new connections are made with new people. The network helps to inform customers and also re-connect friends.

The Austcom network has been designed to support rural communities.

The Austcom network is self supporting, always growing and improvements are constant.

What makes the Austcom network valuable is:

1. The networking happens in a geographic community website that already serves many people in many ways.

2. The network is about us and supported by us in our communities.

3. As a not-for-profit community enterprise we are focussed clearly on building strong, sustainable communities from within.

Here are some more tangible benefits...

An example of online and place based community network building from Geoffrey Grigg, a builder of sustainable communities.

Geoffrey is responsible for client support at Austcom, "The Australian Community Network". You can learn more at http://austcom.org.au and at Sustain Magazine http://sustain.org.au where Geoffrey is publisher.

More:
Austcom - The Australian Community Network
http://austcom.org.au is a shared network shaped by a real community. It is a collection of groups who, by their presence, have crafted a working array of tools such as web pages, on line database applications, events notices, news systems, public access areas, email mailing lists and more. Our core precept is that we help build social, economic and environmentally sustainable communities.

I-Open on Livestream: Saul Kaplan's story of building innovation networks in education, health care, and energy

Saul Kaplan, Founder and Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory in Providence, Rhode Island, talks on I-Open's Livestream channel about his rich experience and present work identifying innovators, building networks and community for new systems to implement new solutions in education, health care, and energy.

You can download the transcription of the interview to your desktop from the I-Open library on Scribd or Slideshare.

Learn more about I-Open innovators like Saul Kaplan in Open Source Economic Development at I-Open's collaborative community space here.

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