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In every venue where I am present – from listservs to LinkedIn to individual phone conversations with people unrelated to consulting – we’ve been asking things like • What other questions / thoughts do you have about the work the Institute is doing to turn “Nonprofit Consultants” into “Catalysts for Community Change”? The more we dive into what it means to run the Community-Driven Institute with true transparency, the more we learn at every step.  This week’s Q&A session on Community-Driven Consulting is turning out to be yet another example of that!

This was almost impossible, but it meant that the entire activist community that used Charas was subject to instantaneous “Singer alerts”: the new landlord was obliged to announce visits with prospective tenants three hours in advance, so Charas would then send a message immediately over activist listservs, as well as their own phone trees, calling everyone available to dash down to the yard in front of Charas for an instant demo, grabbing signs left for the purpose in the Charas lobby, explaining to the visitors—say, the pastor of some Harlem church needing a space for choir practice, or some

Every once in a while I ask folks on the listserv for ARNOVA ( Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action ) if they know whether research has been done about this topic or that. Lately the responses I receive are simultaneously disappointing and intriguing. First, no one finds research to address my question, and

Networking was, as its subtitle says, a "report" on 1600 grassroots and nonprofit networks focused on the seven topics listed on the cover, along with a directory of those networks. Need I say: No web, no listservs, and, of course, no Google, Wikipedia, Twitter or Facebook. In 1982, Doubleday published Networking: The First Report and Directory , Jeff's and my first book. The story of how that book came to market someday will, or rather, should appear in the annals of publishing -- first publisher ( Methuen , a British publisher aiming to break into the US market) shelved its whole list just after we'd submitted manuscript; Doubleday picked it up, offering more than twice the original advance (great agent at time, Ron Bernstein); we got the contract to do the electronic typsetting, making it the first commercial book to be electronically typeset