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 * Feedback on Connected Citizens and Input to Framing of Funder’s Guide to Networks **

//Format / Experience of Funder’s Guide//
 * How can something written like this help facilitate the practices? No substitute for experience
 * Don’t try to fit into one document.
 * Create a toolkit. What's the relationship to Working Wikily and Connected Citizens? Don’t recreate. Reuse. Link content.
 * How do you encourage people to try things out? E.g., call outs that say – go try this! And, then get a badge
 * Don’t oversimplify. Yet, create some access. Create on- ramps in really small bits
 * Could there be a wiki that goes with – asks: have you tried any of these approaches? Tell us about your experience?
 * Collect audio files about the power of networks – do call for stories of networks and why they work

Include:
 * Self-diagnostic about your network-centric grantmaking abilities – personal diagnostic about your network weaving abilities
 * Also do network health diagnostic
 * Use the scenarios. A toolkit for a conversation about the future of our networked environment
 * Engage issues of equity / power dyanmics. Look at this work through a race / class /social lens. Have an explicit conversation about social equity and who is at the table as it relates to healthy networks
 * Do this through cases (e.g. Making Connections Louisville)
 * Social network analysis that calls out racial inequities (e.g. June’s work)

//Cases – what to include://
 * Include NGO stories
 * Mine RE-AMP!

//Possible Organizing Framework:// 1. You Are Already Doing It. Once you have awareness, you can act on it. 2. Getting Started 3. Getting Serious

Be clear about audience for the Funder’s Guide. Three possible audiences:
 * Philanthropy leadership – CEOs – and people who are making the grants
 * NGOs – curious about what funders are looking for and insights they can apply to their own work
 * Non-traditional partners / funders that are outside of the core capacity building audience

How are people going to engage around this?
 * Use YouTube links with videos to keep the content alive. Engage thought leaders
 * How can we model the very things that we are trying to do through roll out of this / an ongoing conversation? GEO will be the host – primary mode of dissemination. In addition, push out and spark an ongoing conversation through social networks (the NNF).
 * Start a book club!
 * Could be another funders group. Need multiple levels. Something lighter than the NNF
 * Take a multi-generational approach
 * Do prework before the conference or icebreaker: come with your own story about this… get people to apply this to their own work

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