Leveraging Social Networks for Social Impact

Last week I facilitated a discussion on "Leveraging Social Networks for Social Impact" as part of the Boston Center for Community & Justice (BCCJ) Brown Bag Lunch Series.  The goals were to 1) present some general concepts about social networks & social capital; 2) share how SCI applies these concepts, especially how we train on leveraging social networks for social impact; and 3) discuss the implications of these ideas for the BCCJ network.

I promised to share my presentation and some of the key handouts with the group, and thought I'd post here to make them accessble to others interested in the subject matter.  If you only see this post, you will of course miss the interesting conversation we had, but can at least glean some of the key concepts from the presentation.  I've also uploaded one of the case studies we use to train on the subject, and our outreach planning tool.  Visit this overview page for more background on our work to "Develop Social Capitalists" through trainings and resources like these.

You can click here to view the Powerpoint Presentation I used to guide us through the discussion.