January 27, 2021 – “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.“ Albert Schweitzer As a number...
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December 27, 2020 – “Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. … Big, undreamed-of things – the people on the edge see them first.” – Kurt Vonnegut I have used the above quote in a...
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September 28, 2020 – We are glad that you are on a path toward learning and action on becoming an anti-racist and racial equity-focused organization. IISC is taking on limited clients at this time, mostly focusing on longer term racial equity change processes or...
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May 4, 2020 – Thank you for sharing your information with us. Please bookmark this page to access the resources in the future. These videos and slide decks are copyright protected. All rights reserved. You may use them to advance your individual work. Do...
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March 24, 2020 – Facilitative Leaders balance three essential dimensions of success: results, process, and relationship. That means not just paying attention to getting the job done successfully, but paying attention to the relationships among people along the way, and to the processes and...
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March 20, 2020 – Image from K. Kendall, “Fragile Resilience,” used under provisions of Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0. Yesterday I was on a call with the Food Solutions New England Network Team, meeting virtually instead of in-person, to do some checking in and...
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April 16, 2019 – Where is the training? The NonProfit Center Boston: 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111. Our building services liaison will be able to direct you to the training room. The NonProfit Center is on the corner of Essex and South streets....
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April 12, 2019 – Where is the training? The NonProfit Center Boston: 89 South Street, Boston, MA 02111. The training will take place in the East Room. Our building services liaison will be able to direct you to the training room. The NonProfit Center...
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March 24, 2019 – “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are [people] who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” – Frederick Douglass On...
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January 30, 2019 – Please join us for this special celebration at the historic Hibernian Hall in Boston, Massachusetts on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 6:30pm. For more information or questions email: 25years@interactioninstitute.org. Register for your ticket today! Keynote Speaker: Rashad Robinson Rashad Robinson is...
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August 24, 2018 – This post originally appeared on the Health and Environmental Funders Network website. It was co-authored by Fred Brown, The Forbes Funds, President & CEO; Debra Erenberg, Cancer Free Economy Network, Strategic Director; and Ruth Rominger, Garfield Foundation, Director, Collaborative Networks Program. IISC was centrally involved...
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July 11, 2017 – “Mutual learning is only possible when all participants are willing to be wrong … willing to learn, to explore new ideas, to go off the map, out of the known, and together grope in the shadowy corners of new ideas,...
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