Working with Kevin Starr and the PopTech Innovation Fellows on creating an 8 Word Mission Statement.
A concise description of the process is described in "Other Ways the Mulago Foundation Obsesses over Social Impact Measurement" from the GOOD Blog.
The post was created after Kevin's 2010 PopTech presentation on "Designing Impact".
See Kevin's PopTech talk here.
This week is one of my favorite times of year.
I am in the US state of Maine, along the Atlantic coast covered with leaves changing color in anticipation of winter.
Over the weekend, I am working with young social entrepreneurs and innovators as part of the Pop!Tech Conference, where I not only work to create paintings for the ideas of the 30+ speakers, but also try to teach graphic visualization skills.
Above is a dramatic photo of the students creating a visual model of their ventures and life history. The pic was snapped by Erik Hersman, co-founder of Ushahidi.
He has a wonderful post describing the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Program, with more images of us in action.
Got to catch up with another key member of the program, Ken Banks, founder of the founder of kiwanja.net, which helps non-profits put mobiles to work through innovative offerings like FrontlineSMS. We were talking shop about growing organizations and scaling up for real impact.
Ken referred me to a blog post of his that has gotten some attention: The Rolling Stones School of Management Innovation.
42nd (surprise) birthday party.
Finding your name in the dictionary as a noun is a sure-fire litmus test for having made a impact on culture and history. Just look at OED-approved fine folks like Charles Boycott, Samuel Maverick, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, Henry Shrapnel, and Lord Cardigan. But there are unsuspected downsides to being reduced to a noun — just ask suffragette and women’s rights pioneer Amelia Bloomer, now equated with a baggy pair of women’s underpants.