WHATS GOING ON
Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter
Veteran activist and organizer Marshall Ganz joins Bill Moyers to discuss the power of social movements to effect meaningful change. Watch here: http://billmoyers.com/segment/marshall-ganz-on-making-social-movements-matter/
A map of Our Network Members
The map below shows the members of the Leading Change Network and their location in the world.
How People Power Generates Change
Activists Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis share how organized people can successfully fight organized money. Full Show: http://billmoyers.com/content/marshall-ganz-on-the-myth-of-the-free-market/
Why you should reframe your strategy as transformational
A post by Helen Bevan in the Health Service Journal In my last post, I talked about strategy as logic; that is, a system of reasoning we utilise, based on our views and beliefs, about how to achieve change. My own strategic logic for change (and therefore my practice as a leader of healthcare improvement) has been particularly influenced by Marshall Ganz. Ganz spent decades as a community organiser, leader and enabler of campaigns and social movements before joining the Kennedy School of Government to teach, research and write about leadership of change from a social movement perspective. It’s very … Continue reading
Support Constituencies
Dear All, The question of organizing what might be described as “support” constituencies has come up along with how that may differ from organizing “primary” constituencies, terms that I find more useful than “privileged” and “oppressed” as these terms depend very much on perspective, especially when many of us might find ourselves “privileged” in some ways but “oppressed” in others. See the questions below. The first point to be clear about is that people in general organize more readily around injustice than around inconvenience. It was not the inconvenience of sitting in the back of the bus that prompted the … Continue reading
ReThinking Health: Leadership Essentials in a Changing System
Dear Members of the Leading Change Network: This is an announcement from Kate Hilton and the ReThink Health team (aka Organizing for Health). They are offering a course that draws on the organizing practices and combines them with skills and approaches from systems thinking, stewardship, sustainability and multi-stakeholder governance. Please consider joining them – and inviting others to join who you believe would benefit from the program. Thank you! Join a Growing Community of ReThinkers Working to Transform Regional Health Systems! ReThinking Health: Leadership Essentials in a Changing System Eight-Week Online Program for Teams and Individuals April 3rd to … Continue reading
Climate Change and Social Action
Article in the Harvard Gazette about “Climate Change and Social Action” panel at Harvard. Panelists included: Marshall Ganz, HKS Senior Lecturer in Public Policy; Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology; Government Professor Stephen Ansolabehere; McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson; and Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan. The moderator was Daniel Schrag, director of the Center for the Environment, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, and professor of environmental science and engineering. Harvard President Drew Faust offered comments at the program’s end.
