Social Citizens Meeting at Facebook
What do you get when you bring 20 creative people together who are passionate about next gen issues and challenge them to think about the future of social changemaking in bold and disruptive ways?
The short answer: a key opportunity to foster collaboration among those who are actively working to create positive change in communities around the world.
Last week, the Case Foundation invited a small group of Social Citizens from across the country to the Facebook campus in San Francisco to share ideas around trends, as well as thoughts and reflections, based on their own experiences. We also spent time identifying 2013 priorities for the Social Citizens campaign, and addressing cross-sector issues people are facing in their organizations.
Our challenge now is to figure out how best to share what we learned with you and others, and integrate this thinking into planning for Social Citizens programming. Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing some thoughts and posting questions that arose from the meeting. We invite you to also contribute to the conversation.
One of the major topics of the day revolved around trends in the changemaking space that may impact Millennials and the next gen. Here are a few big themes and concepts that resonated with the group (in no particular order).
- SMS gaming
- Mobile Micro-volunteering
- Pro-bono
- Integrating for-good activities into everyday life
- Bring the “non-networked” representatives from next gen groups into the conversation (instead of having the usual suspects participate or speak)
- Focus on access to technology for those who can benefit
- Try and decrease issue area overlap among nonprofit organizations
- Turn online involvement into offline action
- Leverage “soft skills” (e.g., music) for good
- Help communities organize themselves, rather than organizations coming in to organize communities
Do you agree? What else would you add and why?
Special thanks to those who participated in our meeting and to Facebook for hosting us:
- Amanda Pape Lenaghan, Taproot
- Amber Cruz, Mobilize.org
- Aria Finger, DoSomething.org
- Brenton Gieser, Change.org
- Christie George, New Media Ventures
- Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute
- Dalila Wilson-Scott, JP Morgan Chase
- Daniel Kauffman, One Percent Foundation
- Jonny Dorsey, GHC, FACEAIDS
- Kari Saratovsky, KDS Strategies
- Katy Spencer, Change.org
- Kiff Gallagher, Musician Corps
- Marcy Lynn, Facebook
- Margo Watson, FACE AIDS
- Megan Emme, Mobilize.org
- Peter Streit, REI
- Yvonne Thomas, Microsoft