Impacts

Web of Change aims to create holistic leaders with a deep passion for change and embed a culture of innovation, collaboration, and transformation into the core of our industry.

In a year of social sector cutbacks, and a paradoxical increase in demand for solutions, social media, digital innovation, and their underlying “web values” hold even more transformative promise for organizations needing to increase their effectiveness and impact. We believe the work and leadership of this community is needed now more than ever.

Since 2001, we have convened 8 successful gatherings and supported over 500 established and emerging leaders to deepen their skills, network, and commitment to the social change movement. Some selected impacts from Web of Change gatherings include:

• Projects: Dozens of unprecedented collaborations have been spawned as a result of WOC, producing world leading work across borders, sectors, and industries.
• People: WOC has Inspired numerous consultants and agencies to commit full time to the social change industry as a career track or company focus.  Our events have helped frame this work and its unique contributions.
• Diversity: We've engaged in active silo-busting by introducing non-techies (campaigners, senior execs, funders) into this space for cross-pollination and relationship building.
• Community: A vital and growing community of WOC alumni often self-organize at larger conferences or in cities where they live. WOC inspired the Social Tech Brewing Co events, which in some cities have become “Net Tuesday”.
• Networks: In 2008, an event was held consisting of a dozen leading social change focused agencies to understand how they could better collaborate and support the movement.
• Personal: Testimonials from dozens of participants calling Web of Change “transformative”, “highly restorative”, and generally one of the most powerful and fun events they’ve ever been to.

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