Yes, I want to add my thank you to both Jimmy and Stacey for engaging with us in this conversation. As Amy has said we are focused on creating space for practitioners to discuss these important questions and learn from each other in order to inform our own work. And then to have it available for any time that one feels the “need for it” at a later date…

Hi Jimmy-

Thanks for joining in! I approved your request to join the wiki already, so
let me know if you have any trouble there.

Bonnie shared some prompts and questions to get people thinking and to spur
inspiration. But, as a learning space/resource, it is really meant to be
more flexible and open than finely-tuned or focused on a fine point. To that
point, the definition of effectiveness is yours to decide really. If you
want to share a case study about a project, service, campaign or
organization that developed or crossed geographic or community lines to
further its impact, and you want to discuss the effectiveness or the level
of success you had, that’s your measurement and evaluation to decide.

I’m not trying to make it a cop-out answer, but just really emphasizing that
there isn’t a pre-decided answer or content you have to include.

Thanks again!

Thanks so much for weighing in, Stacey! I really enjoyed reading Lucy’s post
and think your tie back to #10 is really aligned with the “Global Scale”
project and help highlight the struggle we have faced trying to put a name
on it that matches the purpose. For those reading the comments, #10 on
Lucy’s list is:

“10. Scale will have a networked meaning. Scale is one of the buzzwords of
the last decade in philanthropy. By 2020 ,we’ll have given up our
misconception that “scale = big” and instead be focused on “scale =
networked.” We will have recognized that problems get solved through “small
pieces loosely coupled
.””

I’d even further it by saying that in the case of this discussion at least,
it is a matter of documenting, sharing lessons learned and what worked and
didn’t work by scaling via networked action; and it is about documenting,
sharing and discussing all of that in a networked way as well! That’s why we
currently have the wiki as a place where things can be dropped in and
aggregated, but why we also set up the google group/email list for
discussion and why, case in point!, we are each still starting conversations
on our blogs. It isn’t something we can contain in just one place but
instead need the conversations and online spaces/resources/etc to be
networked…just as we need to approach scale in a networked way.

Thanks for getting this started, Stacey!