GAN Net Newsletter: Second Quarter 2007

Issue #3

Second Quarter 2007

GANs Form New Competency Communities
GAN-Net launched three new Communities of Practices (CoPs) in February and March. These CoPs are organized to develop new knowledge and capacities that are critical for the successful development of GANs. The three meetings were with CoPs in
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GANs Wins $1 million
Congratulations to the Marine Stewardship Council, Escuela Nueva and Global Footprint Network! Each of the GANs has won $1 million over three years from the Skoll Foundation, in recognition of the organizations and leaders' contributions as social entrepreneurs.
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Councillors Identified
Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, co-founder and Executive Director of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), has agreed to be the first Chair of GAN-Net's Council. The Council is still being formed, and will comprise 15-18 global figures including a majority of GAN leaders like Ricardo.
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Board Expands
Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz Shawn Bohen joined the GAN-Net Board as its newest member at its January meeting. Shawn has made a career of creating, building, growing, and strategically realigning mission-driven organizations. She is deeply interested in figuring out
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A New View on the Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative has played a key role in making the corporate social reporting movement a global phenomenon. Or, as an administratively-minded person would say: the corporate social reporting system.
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Networks as Global Public Policy Creators
A Handbook on civil society networks and global public policy formation has just been published. The goal of this Handbook is two-fold: 1) it aims at contributing towards the systematisation of lessons learned by practitioners from networks of civil society...
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Communities of Practice

Measuring Impact– GANs Launch Impact Measurement Initiative

Communications– Developing Web 2.0

Leadership– Engaging Donors

Strategy-Structure-Governance– Addressing the Governance Challenges

Large Systems Change– Four Activity Areas Supporting GAN Change Efforts

In This Issue:
News GANs Form New Competency Communities GANs Wins $1 million Councillors Identified Board Expands A New View on the Global Reporting Initiative Networks as Global Public Policy Creators
Communities of Practice Measuring Impact– GANs Launch Impact Measurement Initiative Communications– Developing Web 2.0 Leadership– Engaging Donors Strategy-Structure-Governance – Addressing the Governance Challenges Large Systems Change– Four Activity Areas Supporting GAN Change Efforts
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GAN-Net Mission
GAN-Net's mission is to strengthen the capacity of multi-sector, global networks to address urgent sustainability issues - social, economic, and environmental. Our strategy is to do this by coordinating events that connect leaders in the field and promote learning, innovation, and attention to what GANs are accomplishing worldwide on a range of crucial issues. GAN-Net works with GANs to increase their legitimacy, improve their results and build their capacity.