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How to Stop Zoom Zone-Out: Lessons from VukaNow

by Caroline Tolbert | Featured Projects, News, Resources, Worldwide Projects

Written By Belinda Glenn – Chemonics Beth Skorochod- CollaborateUp One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, with the shift to virtual engagements looking more permanent and increasing levels of “Zoom fatigue” being reported, empowering team members with the...

Radical Co-Creation

by Caroline Tolbert | Uncategorized

A Blueprint for the Biden Administration for More Effective and Participatory Development in the Northern Triangle and Beyond Written By Richard Crespin CEO, CollaborateUp; Senior Associate (Non-resident), CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development April 14, 2021...

Revamping the U.S. Approach to Education Exchange

by Caroline Tolbert | Uncategorized

Written By Richard Crespin CEO, CollaborateUp ; Senior Associate (Non-resident), CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development Kristen Cordell Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident), CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development Colleen Waterston Research Associate, CollaborateUp...

Turning Protest Into Progress: How Process and Partnerships Can Tackle our Toughest Challenges (part two)

by Emilee Kaufman | Uncategorized

To view part one of this two-part series, visit here Written by Richard Crespin, CEO, CollaborateUp Ricardo Michel, Managing Director, FHI Partners Adaptive Leadership “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives....

Turning Protest Into Progress – How Process and Partnerships Can Tackle Our Toughest Challenges (part one)

by Danielle Goldman | Uncategorized

Written by Richard Crespin, CEO, CollaborateUp Ricardo Michel, Managing Director, FHI Partners “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw Complex societal issues — such as...

Virtual Roundtable: Reinventing the People & Places Left Behind By Globalization

by Danielle Goldman | Uncategorized

Check out The Washington Times’ coverage of this virtual roundtable in the recently released article, “Virus Crisis Accelerates Debates Over China and the Digital Divide, Panel Says” by clicking here.

Co-Creating Cyber Solutions in Ukraine: The Hunger Games

by Danielle Goldman | Uncategorized

The USAID/New Partnership Initiative (NPI) recently featured our work with DAI on the USAID/Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine Activity in the latest NPI August 2020 Newsletter! We worked with DAI to bring implementing partners...

Faith & Trust in Our Lives and Organizations: 7 Key Takeaways on How Religious Traditions Can Close Institutional and Personal Trust Deficits

by Nick Zuroski | News

Our world requires trusted, well-functioning institutions, backed by interpersonal trust, to allow us to solve the most pressing challenges of our day. And there are many such challenges at the moment: the COVID-19 pandemic; its economic fallout; growing social unrest...

Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World: 8 Lessons on Managing COVID-19’s Coming Waves & Future Outbreaks

by Nick Zuroski | News

At the opening of the Fourth Pandemic Policy Summit in the Fall of 2018, “Texas Commissioner of Public Health Dr. John Hellerstedt, recalled the response from across the United States to the needs of Texas and specifically the Houston area, in the wake of Hurricane...

Multi-Sector Collaboration for COVID-19: 7 Takeaways on How to Endure and Build the Post-Crisis World

by Danielle Goldman | News

Our CEO Richard Crespin, moderated a virtual roundtable for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) exploring the processes behind successful multi-sector and multi-stakeholder collaboration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers and...