Aimed at building more equitable and inclusive societies, the Omidyar Network supports ecosystems of collaboration focusing on systemic leverage points. Activities range from grantmaking, to research, to community building, all woven together with powerful storytelling.
For our event exploring how networks scale, we spoke with Jessie Huang, Jay Carmona, and our product strategist, Ana Jamborcic. We came away with three key principles to help a network grow: work out loud, uncover and celebrate invisible work, and create clear boundaries. Here are our takeaways.
We recently hosted an insightful conversation with three amazing network coordinators: Jia (Carol) Xu, Ph.D, Jay Carmona, and Lauren Hebert. We discussed relational resilience, the dreaded bottleneck position, and the party-like feeling you find in a healthy, engaged network. Here are our takeaways.
Seed funding for Socialroots is through a cooperative agreement with "America's Seed Fund", powered by the NSF (SBIR). This funding supports research on the technical and the very human challenges of communication, teaming, and leadership that define the hard problems of cross-group coordination.
We partner with nRhythm to implement a small part of their regenerative health index for healthy org and community design via our cross-group collaboration software.
Are you making efforts to towards effective community engagement? Do you invite everyone, offer many roads for many interests? Do you count email subscribers, social media followers, or other metrics? Do you need to know what is most important to your community? If so, these thoughts are for you.
Socialroots has joined a new member co-op, Zebras Unite, that supports founders wanting to redefine how startups work. 'Zebras' contrast to unicorns in fundamentally being collaborative and purpose-driven, and not looking for a quick exit.
Zebras Unite is a "founder-led, member-owned movement creating the culture, capital & community for the next economy". Socialroots is now a member of the new Zebras Unite Co-operative.
