Over the course of eight months, I served Building Healthy Communities Long Beach (BHCLB). BHCLB is a collaborative of a diverse group of partners supported by the California Endowment working together to create sustainable and positive health outcomes in the area of central and west Long Beach, including adult residents, youth residents, faith leaders, community based organizations, school representatives, public health practitioners and many more. Continue reading
15 Process Tools for Collaboration
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Serving Collaborative Change
In a previous blog post, I wrote about my growing interest in serving collaborative change initiatives. Since then, I wrote an article published by OD Practitioner based on my research of collaborative change initiatives. As an organization development practitioner, my consulting practice focuses on serving collaborative change initiatives, which has included the following:
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Collaborating for Change along the Los Angeles Riverfront
A Riverfront District in Los Angeles? Absolutely! How do we get there? Collaboration. I just facilitated a retreat for the recently launched North East Los Angeles Riverfront Collaborative, “a holistic, collaborative urban planning effort to take advantage of the River as an economic development asset.” Continue reading
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Growing the LA Community Garden Council
Did you know there are over 80 community gardens in Los Angeles County? Did you also know there’s a fantastic nonprofit called the Los Angeles Community Garden Council working to connect people to community gardens? I’m currently helping the Garden Council hire its first Executive Director (very exciting!) and encourage qualified and interested leaders to apply.
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A Collaboration Exploring Culture Change: Los Angeles Bike Movement History
What starts a social movement? How does it grow? How do people work with each other and inspire others to join? I’m excited to facilitate a dynamic discussion on Friday, April 12th: Building a Bike Movement in Autopia: An Experiment in Group Ethnography (1997 to the present). Continue reading
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Collaborating for Sustainability in SoCal
Transitioning Southern California into a sustainable region is beyond the capacity of one organization to accomplish alone. The challenges are too big and complex. Instead, “large scale social-change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations” (Kania & Kramer). This cross-sector coordination is called many things: collaboration, collective impact, Continue reading
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Ron Milam Consulting 