How might we...
- How might we be proactive in building strategic connections globally to allow for further amplification and uptake of JASS' work?
- How might we find ways that integrate the meaning of care and collective care in a politicized way (based on political read of our role) that will allow for coherence and cohesion in JASS?
Hypothesis
Conversation and connection are key to being a leader in the field of global feminist movement building, organizing, mobilizing and bridging theory and practice.
Design
- Want to ID 2 orgs every 6 weeks and have convos with EDs to strengthen relationships or reconnecting or to do introductions.
- On every call there are two people, who holds the relationship with the organization or the person and a person that is strategically involved from leadership triad (ex. either Shereen or cross regional program director).
Metrics
- JASS is included in strategic convos with others, mutuality
- JASS is expanding our share of tools, analysis etc. The offers we are putting out there.
- Friendships are begun to be made.
- Shereen would feel like air circulating, let’s do this. Energizing (vs buried by Ops, HR etc)
Learnings
- Reminder that when you get into the game, every step you take opens up 6 other steps, how do you decide which you are going to go and if at all?
- You have to be ready. You can’t get into the game without being ready. Have to be ready in all senses. Nimble in terms of reading landscape and what is presenting to better know when to move or hold back. If there is a route you want to go then what do you need to put in place as part of the strategic game?
- Less stuck on the idea of needing to have conversations, more in space of, I know now that if there is a particular set of things I need to think through, how can I use my rolodex to find who would be a critical support? (Ex. set of senior leadership meetings, knew b/c of load couldn’t lift on own so key people in our management group are also overloaded but want to consult, so called co-chair of board to talk. And she has supported in translating ideas into agenda). The key is relationships and knowing you can activate them in a non-extractive way. So an ongoing practice is cultivating relationships that you can activate differently at different times.