Coming from the school of valuing celebration, this month is a special one for LCN. Ahel celebrated 10 years last week, and the Institute for Change Leaders is celebrating 5 years today! As organizers, recognizing and honoring contributions, successes, accomplishments, and milestones is always a meaningful moment. Moments of celebration are a great opportunity to
As much as this pandemic has created isolation, it has also connected us in a global unlearning and has reshaped our awareness of what matters most. For LCN, one of the most exciting aspects of 2021 has been the global journeys we have taken to various regions. While intentional seeding and support of regional and
We've reached the halfway point of 2021 and our community is going strong! One of the urgent items that arose in the listening drive we ran for the community this spring was the need to improve our current resource center, both in the content variety as well as how easy it is to navigate. We
House meetings are more than just gatherings. They’re places where communities express their commitments to shared values and strategy. This month we’re excited to share that our fantastic House Meeting Guide is now available in our public resource center! This guide will help you plan, prepare, and facilitate house meetings so that more people in
On March 14th, we celebrated Marshall Ganz’s birthday and his progressive activism, community organizing, and mentorship! Over 600 people from Australia, China, Jordan, Mexico, all time zones across the U.S., and so many more locations around the world came to attend the celebration. We are deeply thankful for the generous contributions made to the Leading
Beginning of this year, we launched an intensive strategizing process to determine our direction in shaping the future of the Leading Change Network and our role in global organizing for expanding the civic space. It has been a very active month for the LCN community, and we’re really excited to share with you great news,
In our latest Faces of Change podcast, Marshall Ganz sat down with Arisha Hatch, the Vice President and Managing Director of Campaigns at Color of Change. Color of Change is the United States largest digital racial justice organization, with over 1.7 million members. They are on a mission to empower black communities to organize to
Now that 2020 is behind us (psst - check out last year’s community successes and highlights if you missed it!) LCN is back and in high gear to offset the disruptions of last year and take lead in helping the organizing community kick-start January in full swing and set the mode for the remainder of
As the clock ticks the final minutes of this long and challenging year, and we are about to usher in the new year, we hope that you are ready to kick-start 2021 full of energy and determination to achieve the change you desire in your community and the world. 2020 has not been an easy
LCN’s outgoing Executive Director Ana Babovic shares the organizing approach used to relaunch LCN As I step down as Executive Director of the Leading Change Network to support the building of democracy in Serbia, I wanted to share with you how we approached the building of our community. This summer marks two years since we
