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2016 National Conference

du 2 au 4 May 2016

Twin Cities, MN

D01: Tools for Big Picture Grantmaking and Influencing Systems

mercredi 4 mai 2016 à 09:15–10:30 CDT
Lakeshore A (First Floor)
Track

Collaborating for Greater Impact

Session Designer

Jamaica Maxwell, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Session Description

Are you a systems grantmaker? The answer is yes! We all work on issues that exist within larger, complex systems and aspire to understand the big picture in order to maximize the potential of our limited resources. In this session, participants will discuss how to apply a systems thinking approach to grantmaking and hear about the broad range of tools available to support strategy development, learning and adjusting strategies over time. Speakers will introduce a new online resource guide to support experimentation with systems tools, processes and frameworks. Plus, an international researcher will share a case example on how a multisector collaboration has applied these tools on the ground to improve regional and national health outcomes. This session will conclude with you trying your hand at a quick and effective systems tool. Come reflect on how you might integrate systems thinking into your grantmaking or go deeper with an existing systems approach. You will leave with immediately useful tools to apply in your grantmaking and expanded ideas to help you and your organization better understand and impact systems.

Session Designers

Jamaica Maxwell, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Speakers

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Jamaica Maxwell, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Biography

As a Program Officer in the Organizational Effectiveness program at the Packard Foundation, Jamaica manages organizational development grants to Foundation grantees, helping the Foundation’s core partners strengthen their leadership, management, and operations. She also develops network and field-level capacity building efforts in the U.S., Asia, the Western Pacific, and Latin America and leads learning explorations on emerging topics related to social sector capacity building. Previously, Jamaica spent 11 years at California Environmental Associates (CEA), where she provided strategic and organizational guidance to nonprofits, foundations, and businesses. Jamaica lives in San Francisco with her husband, son, and two pet rabbits.

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Susan Misra, Management Assistance Group
Biography

Susan Misra is the CoDirector of Management Assistance Group, which strengthens social justice leaders, organizations, and networks in building movements to create a more just world.  Susan catalyzes alignment with values through inclusive, participatory, and analytically rigorous processes. She has strengthened over 200 nonprofits, foundations, and networks around complex adaptive strategy, leadership development, and financial sustainability. She has also designed and evaluated several capacity-building initiatives and learning communities, and has facilitated movement network and collective impact efforts to shift systems (e.g., Baltimore’s Promise and the Assets & Opportunity Network).  She co-authored Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice.

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Allan Best, The University of British Columbia
Biography

Allan Best, PhD is Managing Director, InSource; Associate Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute; and Clinical Professor Emeritus; University of British Columbia. InSource is a Vancouver-based health services and population health research group with expertise in knowledge translation and exchange, systems thinking, and communications. It serves health systems decision makers, offering innovative “whole systems” research, planning, and evaluation tools to support large-scale organizational change. Allan served as the founding Chair of the Department of Health Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the world's first interdisciplinary department inte­grating the biological and behavioural sciences to study health promotion.

Primary Points Of Contact

Jamaica , Maxwell

Matériel de séance

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