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2024
November
21 - Welcoming Mi Stanley
October
14 - Rediscovering My Roots, Reimagining the Future
August
21 - Boost Your Year-End Fundraising with Expert Guidance
May
21 - Aligning Board Roles with Strategic Goals
April
23 - Recruiting the Right Board for Impact
17 - Connecting with Changemakers: Building Stronger Communities Through Genuine Connections
09 - Adapting Board Roles for Ongoing Success
February
28 - Connecting, Supporting, and Learning for Change: The Systems Change Community of Practice Celebrates Five Years
13 - Leveraging Love in Systems Change
05 - Fostering a Culture of Intentional Innovation
January
30 - From Pilot to Progress
22 - Leading Authentically
2023
December
04 - Learning to LIFT Teens
September
26 - Meet the Bright Minds of the New Leadership Learning Lab Class
July
25 - Inspiring Action through Reflection: Introducing Our Stories of Change Discussion Guides
10 - Learning Fund Connects DEI Training Across Network, Guest Blog by Mary Bevans Gillett
June
26 - Interpreting the Natural World - Guest Blog by James Dake
May
31 - Dear Systems Change Funders
26 - This experience helped me become a more effective leader
April
04 - Building Empathy and a Shared Vision Through Authentic Storytelling
March
15 - Philanthropy is a Leverage Point in the Systems We Seek to Shift
February
01 - Five Insights from Systems Change in Action
2022
November
14 - Are We Together?
October
19 - What, So What, Now What
June
07 - Announcing our Spring 2022 Assets for Thriving Communities Grantees
May
31 - Learning as we Go: Accelerating Change through Ongoing Inquiry
April
26 - Designing Interventions That Change Systems
11 - Gateway Communities Seek Key to Workforce Housing
March
25 - From Charity to Changemaker: An Equity Imperative
21 - A Helping Hand in Ellsworth
15 - Upstream: Finding the Source of Complex Problems and Leverage Points for Change
February
21 - Escalating Investments to Expand Access to Pro Bono Legal Immigration Services
09 - Stories that Change Systems
January
31 - Beauty is Therapy: Healing Powers of Nature & Art
19 - People and Passion: Preserving a Unique Community Theatre
11 - Convene, Connect & Commit: Spark Large Scale Change
03 - At the Crossroads of Rail, Highways, and Trails
2021
December
06 - Connecting Northern Michigan Changemakers to New Support
November
17 - Wendy Irvin joins Rotary Charities Board of Trustees
October
26 - Introducing Kristin Hettich
26 - Empowering People to Become Citizen Scientists
13 - Reflections from Here: A Letter from Becky
12 - Honoring History, Revitalization of a Railroad Town
12 - Recovery to Resilience: Meeting Changing Needs
12 - Expanding Access to Healthy Food: A Changemaker+Funder Partnership to Shift a System
08 - Housing Solutions Not One Size Fits All
August
11 - Guidance for Grant Seekers
July
27 - More than Bees: The Benzie Hive
20 - Exploring and Creating in Beulah
13 - Sharing Live Dance with Northern Michigan Communities
06 - Next Generation Aviators Lift Off
01 - Looking Back and Moving Forward
June
29 - A Home for the Arts in Leelanau
22 - Another Heart in Kingsley
16 - Save, Preserve, and Grow The Garden
08 - Sparking "Aha Moments" for Students in STEM
02 - Taking TADL on The Road
May
26 - From Hopelessness to Homeownership
04 - Celebrating the 2020-2021 Leadership Learning Lab Graduates
04 - Meet Sakura Takano, Rotary Charities' new CEO
April
27 - An Anniversary and 30 Years of Tremendous ROI
13 - How can impacts truly be measured?
March
30 - Transform Your Organization by Creating a Learning Culture
23 - Transforming Disruption into Resilience
17 - Tech Tips, Part Two
01 - From Seed Grant to Systems Change
February
17 - Tech Tips, Part One
08 - Service At The Center
2020
December
23 - The Rock looks toward the future
22 - Michigan Legacy Art Park goes virtual
October
22 - Power of partnership
22 - New habits for collaborative leaders
01 - Julie Clark
September
09 - 2020: Rooted & Resilient
09 - Community of Practice tries new things
August
21 - Protecting Our Lakeshore
July
28 - Our Community Health Clinic Steps Up
June
09 - Seth Bernard
04 - A new world is possible
01 - Connecting to Meet Needs during Covid-19
April
01 - Local Food For All During Covid-19
March
18 - Shifting my mindset about social distancing
13 - Revitalizing Mancelona, house by house
January
22 - Evaluating systems change: Meg Hargreaves
03 - Impact Investing attracts new resources
2019
December
03 - Community of Practice flocks together
October
22 - Why we're aiming for transformative change
15 - Becky & Marsha on Leadership
June
11 - Renewed hope for changing the odds
06 - We Can Stress Less
May
06 - Less prep, more presence
06 - Adults can learn new things
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