Philanthropy and Social Change
Georgia Tech’s IMPACT Series
Sept. 3, 2008
John Bare
Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
jbare@ambfo.com
404.367.2062
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The Driving Force Behind Social
Entrepreneurship: A Desire for Social
Change
• Are you satisfied with the status quo?
• What must change for you to become
satisfied?
Your answers are your first key to your
measurement needs.
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Heroes of Social Change
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Can Anything Slow Our Hero Now?
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Getting to Maybe
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Navigating a Paradox
Our only hope for doing well rests on
rewarding news about and solutions for
whatever it is we’re doing poorly. …
… Yet individual and organizational
incentives reward a lack of honesty and
candor.
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Tools for Social Change
• Risk Analysis
• Michael Patton’s Systems Approach (“Getting to
Maybe”)
• Feedback Loops
• Testing Assumptions
• Daniel Kahneman’s “Outside View”
• Karl Weick’s “Sensemaking”
• Game Theory
• Scenario Planning
• Documentary Methods
• Social Network Analysis
• Reflective Practice
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Modeling Social Change
Change =
Dissatisfaction *
Vision *
Process
or
C=D*V*P
Adapted from Bob Bontempo, Columbia University Business School
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Social Change: A Case Study
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Dissatisfaction
White America was profoundly aroused
by Birmingham because it witnessed
the whole community of Negroes facing
terror and brutality with majestic scorn
and heroic courage.
- MLK, March 25, 1965 (Montgomery)
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Dissatisfaction
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LBJ: March 15, 1965
But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be
over. ... Their cause must be our cause too.
Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all
of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy
of bigotry and injustice. And we shall
overcome.
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