Michael Edwards @edwarmi
Writer and activist dedicated to strengthening civil society. futurepositive.org Swan Lake, NY, USA Joined January 2010-
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This week's #ThrowbackThursday article from 1999 is on 'NGOs in a global future: marrying local delivery to worldwide leverage' by @edwarmi , David Hulme (@OfficialUoM), and Tina Wallace discussing role of #NGOs as vehicles of international development. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
@rustystahl @FordFoundation @firelightmedia I remember it well Rusty!
It was 20 years ago this month that I completed my term as a Program Associate at @FordFoundation. It was a privilege to work at this great institution! Thx to amazing filmmaker Marcia Smith of @firelightmedia & civil society scholar @edwarmi for giving me a chance.
@ExitBuy Small Change may be a good place to start: amazon.com/Small-Change-B…
@edwarmi @oDTransform Lovely piece. Five years later, how are you getting on with the chestnut weed?
@casparhenderson @oDTransform almost completely gone Caspar, so now I have to find somewhere else to clean up.......It's been a great citizen success story.
My new piece for @oDTransform on why we all need need more manual labor in our lives: bit.ly/2kZ13EE
Please, please come amigos- I will be there too. @resultsuk @yl4h @YL4HGhana @vasanthihari @edwarmi @CambsOpenMedia
Join the small team attempting to transform children in Madurai from 'low confidence low skills' to 'high confidence high skills'. We need you in Madurai 10hrs a week. #volunteer for #children in #Madurai @MaduraiEmerging @UpdatesMadurai @YmcaMadurai @malpani @krishnanns
“Not only captures essential questions of our time (populism, polarization, privatization, bureaucratization) but confronts issues that will be only more central & relevant throughout the 21st century.” @PIDSjournal reviews @edwarmi *Civil Society* ↓ tinyurl.com/2w3ycvdc
@UBulgamaa & @EvaBlenesi review @edwarmi's book 'Civil Society'. doi.org/10.1177%2F1464…
The soft authority of knowledge is ever more important as a force for social change says @edwarmi. So we need to explore that intersection where know what meets knowhow through deliberation, consensus building and accountability. opendemocracy.net/en/5050/know-h…
“The Powers are good. The Powers are fallen. The Powers must be redeemed.” Ted Grimsrud on the continued significance of Walter Wink: bit.ly/2BnNZLi
. @edwarmi elaborates further on the subject of power and gives us insightful food for thought.
Joining us as a guest speaker was @edwarmi. As foundations do not publicly publish their breakdown of diversity staff/trustees, Michael suggested ways in which we could go further if they did. #FPRReport2022
@edwarmi @moskov @EricaJoy @ftxfuturefund @ErskineChris @birjupandya @KalliopeiaF That's a foundational list on accountable & progressive philanthropy! It's concerning that many tech billionaire donors appear not to use such wisdom from experience. I mention the problem of ego-affirmation & a need for #generativegiving here: jembendell.com/2019/04/04/cha…
@jembendell @moskov @ericajoy @ftxfuturefund @ErskineChris @birjupandya @KalliopeiaF Not sure anyone is listening to my advice Jem but for those who are interested there is plenty to read in the stuff I've published over the years. A good place to start is futurepositive.org/philanthropy/
@jembendell @moskov @EricaJoy @ftxfuturefund @ErskineChris @birjupandya @KalliopeiaF that's not my experience with @KalliopeiaF who abandoned Transformation at a critical time because their donor had a hissy fit over an article that criticized Silicon Valley.
@edwarmi points to a central question that concerns all foundations: whether they form a control system or a support system for democratically-directed social change. #FPRReport2022
"What’s lacking is a sense that you don’t have to be any of those things, you just have to be useful for people who are doing the work. Sense of humility and permeating it all the way through the practice of foundations will be no bad thing." - @edwarmi
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