(Ebook PDF) Networks for Social Impact 1st edition by Michelle Shumate, Katherine Cooper ISBN 9780190092023 0190092025 full chapters

(Ebook PDF) Networks for Social Impact 1st edition by Michelle Shumate, Katherine Cooper –Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9780190092023, 0190092025

Instant download Full Chapter of Networks for Social Impact 1st edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0190092025
ISBN 13: 9780190092023
Author:  Michelle Shumate; Katherine R. Cooper

Table of contents:

1. What Are Networks for Social Impact?

• Social impact
• Networks
• Research methods
• The dimensions of networks for social impact
• Configurational and process approaches to social impact
• Axioms of this book
  • Axiom 1: Outcomes are interdependent
  • Axiom 2: Networks for social impact are sensitive to their environment
  • Axiom 3: Network dilemmas are never solved, just managed within constraints
  • Axiom 4: Not all networks organized for social impact achieve that impact
  • Axiom 5: There is more than one path to achieving social impact
• The plan of the book
• Case study: Summit Education Initiative
• Tools for network instigators

2. Is Social Impact the Goal?

• Defining social impact and network outcomes
• The character of social impact
• Outcomes other than social impact
• What kind of problem is the network trying to solve?
• Dead ends to social impact
• Pathways to social impact
• Conclusion
• Case study: The Wisconsin Association for Independent Colleges and Universities
• Tools for network instigators
  • Root cause analysis

3. Setting Up the Network

• Network instigators
• Recruiting network participants
• Managing network membership
• Decision-making processes
• Setting the goal or goals of the network
• Defining structures and roles
• Developing external legitimacy
• Getting funding
• Network reincarnations
• Dead ends in network emergence
• Network dilemmas in emergence
• Pathways to social impact from network emergence
• Case study: Education for All
• Tools for network instigators
  • Actor mapping
  • Consensus-based decision-making

4. The Influence of Funders and Resources

• The resources that bring social impact networks together
• What resources are needed to achieve social impact?
• Dead ends to social impact
• Dilemmas in managing network resources
• Network pathways to social impact
• Case study: Two networks combat gender-based violence
• Tools for network instigators
  • Fiscal sponsorship
  • Community asset inventory

5. Power and Conflict

• Power in networks
• Interfaces for conflict
• Dead ends for addressing conflict
• Dilemmas in managing network conflict
• Pathways to social impact amid conflict
• Case study: NF Collective
• Tools for network instigators
  • Stakeholder participation tool
  • The VOICE heuristic

6. Using Data to Support Networks’ Theory of Change

• Data use for project-based social impact
• Data use for learning-based social impact
• Data use for policy-based social impact
• Data use for catalyst-based social impact
• Data use for systems alignment-based social impact
• Data use for network management
• Data use for community empowerment
• Dead ends for data use to support theories of change
• Network dilemmas for data use to support theories of change
• Pathways for data use to support theories of change
• Case study: Chicago Benchmarking Collaborative
• Tools for network instigators
  • The data use in networks tool
  • Pivot Tables

7. Remaining Agile and Adaptable

• Incremental change and serendipitous networks
• Radical change and serendipitous networks
• Incremental change and goal-directed networks
• Radical change and goal-directed networks
• Network death and reincarnation
• Dead ends for managing network change
• Dilemmas in managing network change
• Pathways for managing network change
• Case study: Westside Infant-Family Network
• Tools for network instigators
  • Strategic planning for networks
  • Action learning teams
  • Enhancing absorptive capacity

8. Frontiers for Networks for Social Impact

• The axioms of social impact networks
• Implications for researchers, network instigators, and funders
• Conclusion

References

People also search:

social network effects on society
social media network effect
social networks and internet connectivity effects
social impact benefits
social networks impact on society
networking impact