Everyday around the world, people are coming up with new ways to tackle the greatest social and environmental challenges of our lifetime. Whether we’re focused on solving problems across time zones or in our own backyards, when we can learn from our collective successes and failures we are better, faster, and more effective at finding solutions. Sharing our knowledge allows …
Queen of Resilience
Astrid Scholz can’t help but look magisterial. Wearing jeans, a simple sweater and a scarf, she is seated on a lounge at Glyph Café in Northwest Portland. It’s one of those chairs that articulate and bounce with the sitter’s every movement, but Scholz still manages a commanding presence. The coffee shop, just a few blocks south of her old digs …
An Interview with Solution Practitioners
As many of you know, we spent much of last week at the Skoll World Forum, enjoying remarkable speeches from the likes of Jeff Skoll, Jaqueline Novogratz, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and many more. Behind the scenes, we were able to conduct a private interview with the team behind The Resilience Exchange, a new online web tool for tracking and sharing …
Accelerating the Pace of Social Change
This week the team from Markets For Good have been attending the Skoll World Forum, enjoying a host of sessions on best practice, new trends, and exciting innovations across the social enterprise space. One such data innovation that caught out eye comes from the Resilience Exchange, who practice what they call the “solutioning approach,” something they explained to the Skoll …
Ecotrust president leaving to run wide-reaching social impact group
Portland-based Ecotrust’s president is leaving the group’s top post. However Astrid Scholz isn’t going far. Scholz announced Wednesday she’ll resign to run the Resilience Exchange, a “global initiative to accelerate the pace of social change” that she actually started. The group consists of 10 social change organizations that seek to address issues throughout the world. Along with Ecotrust, the Exchange …
Astrid Scholz Departs Ecotrust For The Resilience Exchange
Astrid J. Scholz announced today that she will be resigning from her role as president of Ecotrust to support the Resilience Exchange, a global initiative to accelerate the pace of social change. Initiated by Scholz in 2011, the Resilience Exchange was formally established by a consortium of ten social change organizations in 2013 with the shared goal of addressing common …
Regional Forum on Solutions for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-Being in Asia and the Pacific
“We need to avoid re-inventing the wheel” is a notion that was frequently heard during the opening of the Regional Forum on Solutions for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-Being in Asia and the Pacific. The event was hosted by the Blue Solutions Initiative, with IUCN as a partner, on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines. It convened around 100 practitioners and decision …
Solutioning – Exchange on Blue Solutions, Asia and Pacific
The Regional Forum on Solutions for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-Being in Asia and the Pacific took place on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines from 27 – 30 May 2014. More than 100 policy-makers and practitioners from 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific met to exchange experiences on marine and coastal management and governance. An innovative approach to sharing “solutions” …