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Visualizing Racism: Five ways to powerfully visualize systemic racism in the United States
July 16, 2020
From geographical boundaries to powerful fine arts representations, here are just some of the ways that artists, journalists, and data scientists use visualization to communicate the truth about systemic racism in our country. GKI assembled the visualizations below as inspiration and a venue for learning. We highlight 5 powerful
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Our Statement on Black Lives Matter
June 19, 2020
BLACK LIVES MATTER GKI is appalled by the ongoing brutal actions of the police against the African American community and people of color. GKI supports the view that there is systemic racism in the USA. Policies, practices, resource allocations, power dynamics, and racist mental models perpetuate inequality and the violent act
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New Virtual Facilitation Training Dates Added!
May 22, 2020
GKI’s last series of Virtual Facilitation Trainings were a huge success! Due to popular demand, we’ve added three more in May and June. Are you trying to sharpen your virtual collaboration skills? Check out three upcoming trainings led by GKI senior advisers Jacey Spratt and Regina Rabenhorst. In this course, you will: Explore v
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GKI Thinks Big: Complexity was the new normal. And then COVID-19 hit.
April 27, 2020
We are redesigning our services to better support you. Help us by filling out our poll so that we can better know your needs! The challenges we face in the world are complex, human and dynamic. This is more poignant today as the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. We are seeing the interconnectedness of things an
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GKI and GAIN Jointly Publish Foresight Report on Innovation for more Nutritious, Sustainable Food Systems
July 25, 2019
Washington, DC USA: The Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI), in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) recently launched a new report, Nutritious Food Foresight, which details the most effective strategies for advancing triple bottom line goals of human, economic, and environmental well-being in emergin
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Congratulating Sara Farley and Welcoming Our New Staff
April 22, 2019
It’s incredible to look back at the first quarter of 2019 and reflect on the transformation taking place here at the Global Knowledge Initiative. First, GKI announces the departure of Sara Farley as Chief Operating Officer. A co-founder of GKI, Sara served as an exemplary leader of the organization for nearly a decade. Under her
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GKI is Hiring! Come join our Accelerating Innovation for Resilience Team
April 1, 2022We are looking to hire a consultant based in Bangladesh to join our Accelerating Innovation for Resilience team. This role will be focused on initial stakeholder engagement and processing of key informant interviews (KIIs) and support for translation of project materials such as 2-pagers, website information, etc. In April – Jun
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GKI Systems Primers
June 19, 2020
Our hope is that this primer can be used to support the work of other social impact organizations looking to bring a systems approach to their strategy and programs. This primer was designed for the support of the Polaris Project. GKI Systems Primer
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Announcing Our New CEO: Seema Patel
February 5, 2019
We are pleased to announce Seema Patel as the Global Knowledge Initiative’s new Chief Executive Officer! “Ten years into our journey since starting the Global Knowledge Initiative we needed to increase the size of our leadership team and so we sought a tested leader endowed with a clear sense of scale strategy and growth,” said
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Systems Change and Leading in the Land of Complexity
March 13, 2018
In this three-part series GKI’s Chase Keenan shares some of the thinking that emerged from a piece of research done by Chase, Sara Farley, Renee Vuillaume, and Glen Burnett. The aim of this research was to further GKI’s understanding of how systems change, and the role that leadership can play in catalyzing that change. You can