InterAction NGO Futures Digest: November 13, 2020
InterAction’s NGO Futures initiative accelerates NGOs’ ability to adapt, evolve, and affect sustainable change through offerings, including Futures Digest. Nominate content to NGO Futures program director Deborah Willig. Collaboration encouraged.
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Brookings Institute explores how President Biden can reinvigorate global development and diplomacy.
Foreign Affairs shares a collection of essays regarding what presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden should do when he takes charge of U.S. foreign policy.
“2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything” author and Wharton management professor Mauro Guillen discusses accelerating trends, including rising income inequality, increased attention on race and gender, and government policy needing to be more innovative.
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From the pandemic to natural disasters, 2020 brought unprecedented challenges to global health. However, as Project HOPE writes, there are many headlines worth celebrating.
Bond notes that the UK’s INGO sector is experiencing a perfect storm, and 48% of NGOs may not survive the next two years, according to their latest survey on NGOs’ finances. They highlight five challenges, including adapting models to remain relevant.
How are vaccines developed? When will a COVID-19 vaccine be ready? The process is a long one. UNICEF answers your top questions about a vaccine.
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To lead through an era of exponential, perpetual, pervasive change, shared purpose, psychological safety, and distributed knowledge are powerful drivers. Here are four pillars to navigating multi-dimensional change in real-time:
- Leader humility, authenticity, and openness instills trust and psychological safety.
- Trust and psychological safety empower individuals and teams.
- Continuously learning teams enable effective navigation of multi-dimensional change.
- Shared purpose and value enhance focus, cohesion, and resilience during multi-dimensional change.
Five tips for NGO strategizing, based on common mistakes:
- Focus on the external world for a bit longer before diving into planning.
- Identify gaps where your organization can apply its comparative advantage.
- Spread reflection and analysis time across the project, allowing for adaptation.
- Establish decision-making rules of thumb to act as a compass.
- Don’t wait and doubt; lead.
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PeaceCon 2020 Pandemics, Peace, and Justice: Shaping What Comes Next. Panels and workshops tackling some of the most pressing issues of 2020, such as defining “fake news” and identifying misinformation, supporting local peacebuilding amidst COVID-19, using deadly force by police in America, and youth leading initiatives for peaceful change. December 7-9, 2020 | Register HERE.
InterAction Forum 2.1. Through a mix of virtual session formats with presenters from inside and outside the NGO community, Forum 2.1 will explore ways to lead the sector into the future and connect our community virtually. March 23-24, 2020 | Be the first to know about new content and sessions. Subscribe HERE.
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