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Jacob Harold
@jacobcharold
social change strategist | executive | dad | author of The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact | co-founder, | former CEO, GuideStar
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The prodigal son returns. I'm speaking at Stanford on May 18th.
Bay Area friends: I hope you'll come say hi!
(Thanks Center on Social Innovation and for hosting!)
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“We’ve asked too few words to do too much, and now they are tired.”
Today is STAR WARS day. The original film was probably Hollywood's biggest cultural phenomenon, and the making of story is a fascinating one. #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Are you an aspiring #socent #entrepreneur seeking to achieve #impact at scale?
Join us at on 5/18 as alumnus discusses #strategy for social change and his new book, #TheToolbox
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On “destroying the competition” — that is the, competition mindset in philanthropy: “philanthropy uses competition as a knowledge engine” ..and yet… “it’s only a zero-sum game if we play that game.” of
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“We saw it written once that software was eating the world. What really happened, it seems to us, is that software made a world of its own and invited us there to be eaten.”
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BREAKING: Hinton is leaving Google. He will be speaking at our AI event, EmTech Digital, on Wednesday, where he will give his first post-resignation interview.
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Finished |s "The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact" and recommend as a general #strategy guide, not only in an #NGO or social context but well worth reading for #enterprise #business #strategy.
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“Every spiritual tradition has its cell, it’s call to solitude and reflection. The cell needn’t be built of mud brick, it can be built of intention.” - Roger Lipsey
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. has always been our favorite go-to partner for anything innovative about philanthropy. They just got even smarter with the addition of Elisha Smith Arrillaga as their new VP of Research!!
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We're thrilled to announce that @ESArrillaga, a seasoned philanthropic and education leader and researcher, has been named @CEPdata's new Vice President, Research. She will start on June 1st.
cep.org/pressreleases/
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"Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky...hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency."
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Love this piece from and on foundation boards. It's a great framework for identifying problems -- and fixing them. (h/t )
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Happy Ramadan
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We’re in a “century of consortia” in which collaboration is required to achieve results at scale — of (event )
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“The nature of the system is that it moves resources from yesterday to today to tomorrow.”
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Inflation “opens up unexpected fiscal space…We need public investment so as to escape the reactive cycle we are locked in and to begin anticipating the challenges of the polycrisis.” -
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What does the future of social innovation look like? How can we rise to meet future challenges? For SSIR’s 20th Anniversary, we’ve asked leaders in the field to share their visions: ssir.org/ssir_celebrate. Hear from and more!
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“History is not simply a point of comparison to the present. It is a way to map the currents that engulf us in the present.”
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“Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Huntsman, What Quarry?
Thurs evening, I was sad.
I had just spent 6 months pouring my heart and soul into building an amazing installation to inspire real change for something few seemed to care about. Then, Bitcoin Twitter noticed the #SkullOfSatoshi, and the rollercoaster began.
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“France today has three branches of government: the presidency, the judiciary, and the street.” —
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Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.
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“How might we use what we have, to do good, better?” () suggests reflecting on how the social innovation ecosystem operates over time, space, and scale in order to strengthen our collective structure for the future.
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There’s plenty to celebrate in our social innovation ecosystem, but we’ll need to address its flaws to prepare for future challenges facing humanity. () frames this as a problem of grand strategy. Read on to find the solutions ⬇️
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To get through this next phase of the AI revolution intact, we will need:
1️⃣ Proactive mitigation of as many risks as possible in the systems themselves.
2️⃣ Resilience technology at the rate of destabilizing technology.
3️⃣ Effective governance at the rate of technological change.
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" human civilization is in the process of trying to become like Earth, in the sense of learning how to become a persistent system. In this century, we’re going to get a lot of harsh lessons on how not to persist." -
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I’m excited to join @RewiringAmerica today as Senior Counsel to help more folks understand how much money they can save with a little help to upgrade their homes and vehicles. Together, we can share the benefits of electrification and ensure families get their fair share.
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Thank you, ! And if the lessons in The Toolbox are even a little help in your work to protect Pacific salmon, it will have been worth it for me!
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I just finished reading "The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact" and I am so impressed with this book - it's actionable and inspiring. Worth a read if you work in nonprofit or want to make an impact in your community. Well done @jacobcharold!
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A remarkable look back at the AOL-Tume Warner merger — and its implications for today from
From mathematical modeling to storytelling to design thinking to complex systems science, () shares strategies for making a better world in his new book: The Toolbox. Read an excerpt ⬇️
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“We have to institute an act of radical decentering that forces us to be born together again.” - Achille Mbembe noemamag.com/how-to-develop
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