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Relentless, Purposely Playful, Seeking Redundancy. Let’s BE our fullest joyous expressions co-creating new ways that honor some of the old ways. If not us, who?

California, USA
Joined April 2009
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
In case you thought I only said this behind closed doors. It's time for us to evolve how we construct knowledge and evaluation is a gateway to doing so. @ChandlerFdn’s #SocialInvestorMag . #jdcMusings+
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
2 years
RT @equitableeval: Over 4.5 years, 44 U.S. foundations engaged in the practice of the Equitable Evaluation Framework™️. With them, consulta….
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
2 years
"as I meet new people and we do the dreaded introductions (ok maybe others enjoy), I find myself not knowing what to say."
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
2 years
It all still applies.
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
greetings from a United lounge in Chicago pre dawn. first and foremost, thank you, not for what you have done and continue to do but foremost for who you are Lucy Bernholz. and yes, yes and yes. spot on. i appreciated the use of te…
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
i wish this for all of us. may it be a future realized that repeats. #jdcmusings
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
so great to have this work elevated Cynthia Rayner & John Kania. honored to serve on the board of Collective Change Lab. we have a great team
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
how is this news? curious the cost of the study to tell us something we already knew. i move on or rather move beyond. #jdcmusings
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
for some this is more than a notion, particularly if the term evaluation is somewhere in your title, function or charge. and yet, release yourself from your preoccupation with prediction. open yourself to what you might learn, what might surprise and wha…
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
at volume. my gift to you.
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
This shares some early thinking @ashleymariea.
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
as I begin to wind down to winter (mid December to early Feb) it is these sentiments and others which welcome I center #jdcmusings+
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
sometimes all you can do is say thank you for existing. thank you. #jdcmusings+
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
i finally feel like someone gets me. #jdcmusings+.
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Dionne Grant
3 years
“Stop forcing your friends to go outside”. Issa Rae with a PSA 😅
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
Carolina Guzman thank you. This image is so highly problematic. I would add that the ‘color’ of the characters reinforces a belief about who ‘needs’ supports as opposed to recognizing the systematic and structural policies and practices that create limita…
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
and thanks to @CynthiaGreenlee for you care to my story which is about who I am as much as it is what I am about and for.
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
@ChandlerFdn "we simply are not as smart as we think we are" and I think that the state of all the things suggests that it is way past time to move in to new and perhaps some old ways of being in relationship and how we know what we know.
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
it’s only been a few days since I stepped more in the light. but as part of the world halted all activities to watch monarchy self perpetuate, I am even clearer that this, all of this, was not meant for me. I will not play at the edges - not that I ever…
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
‘If you are in a room where surface agreement is more important than fighting against racism, standing up for women’s rights, insisting on fair wages for hard work, and demanding truth-telling about our leaders and elections, you need to get up and find a…
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Jara Dean-Coffey (she/her/hers)
3 years
oh and this happened today. thus the feelings.
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