1. By Noël Rozum, AmeriCorps VISTA Becoming More Effective Agents of Development & Change

2. Living successfully in a world of systems requires more of us than our ability to calculate. It requires our full humanity, our rationality, our ability to sort out truth from falsehood, our intuition, our compassion, our vision, and our morality. -Donella H. Meadows

3. As a VISTA, do you feel like you have a good understanding of what capacity building is?

4. Capacity building is the “process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in the fast-changing world.” -Ann Philbin, Capacity Building in Social Justice Organizations Ford Foundation, 1996

5. Recognizing the Patterns Thinking Intentionally about Why They Exist Uncovering the Structures that Support Them

6. 1. Know the history of the system 2. Don’t ignore the wisdom of the system 3. Be permeable

7. 4. Learn from the system 5. Honor all information 6. Design for intrinsic responsibility

8. 7. What’s important is not always quantifiable 8. Understand the ecoSYSTEM 9. Focus on AND beyond your VISTA year

9. 10. Be effective at interdisciplinary communication 11. Build caring capacity 12. Allow for the complexity that exists

10. 13. Strive for goodness

11. Where do you go from here?

12. Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement By Aubrey C. Daniels The NTL Handbook of Organizational Development and Change Edited by Brenda B. Jones and Michael Brazzel Strengths Finder 2.0 By Tom Rath

13. A Framework for Organizational Development: The Why, What and How of OD Work http://www.ufv.ca/Assets/BC%20Centres%20%28CRIM%29/Non- Profit%20Development/Articles/Board%20Governance%20and%20Leadership/F ramework%20for%20Organizational%20Development.pdf By Ann Philbin and Sandra Mikush Systems in Sync Articles http://www.systemsinsync.com/ARTcapacity.htm

14. The Third Sector. Transforming Nonprofits: Powering Change www.tsne.org The Organizational Development Network. Advancing the Theory and Practice of OD http://www.odnetwork.org/ Capacity.Org A Gateway for Capacity Development www.capacity.org

15. Questions?