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Curated Portals for World Changers
Videos, podcasts, articles, and trusted resources to help your journey towards inspiration and impact
Symbols and Change
Liberating Structures
Why Native Plants?
Reframing Problems
Beautiful Trouble's Toolbox
How Do Ideas Spread?
Wicked Problems
Bold Goals
Appreciative Inquiry
A process of inquiry and dialogue, AI focuses on peoples’ and groups strengths, successes, and potential.
Positive Deviance
Design Thinking
Done is Better than Perfect
As you create projects and campaigns to improve the world, don’t shoot for perfect: go for the done.
Americans Who Tell the Truth
“Harmonic Portal.” Robert Shetterly’s inspirational portraits of American truth-tellers, with stories.
Kaizen
Kaizen means good change—making small improvements to any kind of work that over time add up to create dramatic results.
The Flywheel
The Hero's Journey
The Mighty Message
Tell your stories, present your case, call us to action through all kinds of media. Your words can change the world!
Mind Mapping
Creative tool for organizing thoughts, understanding, planning and writing. Works for individuals or groups.
Yin Yang of Growing Your Cause
Grow your cause by both incrementally improving the programs, funding, etc, while looking for the breakthrough.
Community Asset Mapping
A process to help communities discover their potentials by identifying resources, strengths, and capacities.
How can Hospitals improve access?
“Harmonic Portal” at Stakeholder Health. 10 ways hospitals can inprove healthcare access.
Tenacity
Fueled by determination and a refusal to give up, tenacity becomes the driving force behind meaningful change.
Framing for Change
Framing through language. Shape conversations, expose wrongs, inspire action. Words pave paths, establish legitimacy.
Social Marketing
Social marketing uses traditional marketing tools to promote beneficial ideas, good behaviors, and social causes.
Bias for Action
Prioritazing action over inaction. It’s being proactive and agile in responding to challenges or opportunities.
Imagine a Better World
World changers need at least a rough sense of what the new world they want to create looks like. Can you picture it?
Target Marketing
Target Marketing for Nonprofits: Identifying and reaching your niche audience for effective mission-driven impact.
Power of Repetition
Unlock the Power of Repetition: Master skills, conquer tasks, and build lasting habits for individuals and groups.
Community Tool Box
Harmonic Portal: Tools for building healthier societies. Community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and advocacy.
Ask for Help
Learn effective ways to ask for help and drive change with practical strategies, videos, and valuable resources.
Yin & Yang of Growth
Grow your nonprofit or cause by doing two seemingly opposite things at once. First, incrementally improve the programs, funding, and so on, that already work well or at least have potential. At the same time, constantly look for those breakthrough ideas that can take your cause and impact to a new place.
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10 ways to be audacious
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More audacity needed to save democracy, the Earth!
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The Book: Want to Change the World?
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