Happy Ramadan, Passover and Easter (in a rare overlap) to all who are celebrating!

Inspiration and shared learning via the Skoll World Forum this week skill.org/skoll-world-fo… #skollwf

Inspiration spreads as fast as anger ~ Maria Ressa #skollwf

Crucial recognition of the importance of music to movements #SkollWF

Surprised I’ve never heard this before “ If you change the I in Illness to a We you get Wellness” ~ Dr. Olajide Williams HipHop Public Health, Brilliant! #SkollWF #globalhealth #music

Some of my experiences with multi-stakeholder efforts with learning from Great Lakes Protection Fund Global Campaign for Education American Academy of Pediatrics Sustainable Food Lab and others goinginternational.com/2023/04/19/mul… #multistakeholder #partnerships

Still reading many articles and reports on what we ‘should be doing’. Let’s more intentionally start doing! Look for champions, collaborators, & disrupters and give them the resources they need. #socialchange #systemschange #test #learn #adapt

Turning Wheels Guidebook – sharing case examples of community led development catalyst2030.net/resources/turn… #CatalysingChangeWeek2023 Catalyst 2030

Excellent conversation around long-term change and efforts needed to co-create among partners in the global south and north. #trust #intentionality #structuralchange Tostan Lwala Community Alliance Catalyst 2030 #CatalysingChangeWeek2023

Reflecting on Being a Changemaker goinginternational.com/2011/07/05/ref…. A few things struck me in re-reading it during Catalyst 2030 #CatalysingChangeWeek2023: altho we have made progress we are still grappling w/issue like labels & silos; #leadership, measuring social #impact #CCW2023

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊

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Looking forward to this session!

A Sunday musical interlude for all who are struggling youtube.com/watch?v=IQvzX0…

At the GLOW conference Veronica Boix Mansilla outlines 4 stages to #globalcompetency 1. Examine & explore different cultures; 2. Understand & appreciate perspectives of others; 3. Engage w/ new partners; #4. Take action to make the world a better place Actionable Innovations Global #GLOWedu #Thrive2026 Lucy Gray 🌻🇺🇦 #glowedu

Some favorite books this year w/memorable female characters: A Girl is a Body of Water, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi; The Ways We Hide, Kristina McMorris; When the Apricots Bloom, Gina Wilkinson; We Measure the Earth w/Our Bodies. Tsering Lama Maureen Agena Ronita C Leila Billing

What is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes. ~  Marcus Aurelis via Jess Search. In remembrance of Jess Skoll World Forum #SkollWF #Skoll

We’ve wound down the Testing Change project after 10 years! Take a look at our learnings! linkedin.com/posts/bonnieko…

The final project documents for the Testing Change project can now be found in 2 knowledge repositories: Commons Library commonslibrary.org/collection/tes… and Issue Lab search.issuelab.org/?publisher=&wi… Please consider bookmarking and sharing so others can learn from our experiences!