Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact - A Conversation with Workshop Faculty

In early 2013, more than 60 leaders of mature collective impact initiatives gathered in Cincinnati for a three day workshop to discuss their work leading backbone organizations, and to learn from each other about how to improve their practice. The workshop was organized by the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions, FSG, the StriveNetwork, and the Tamarack Institute.At the close of the three day workshop, leaders from FSG, Strive, and Tamarack participated in a discussion on critical questions raised by workshop participants. The conversation touched on a range of topics including articulating the value of the backbone organization to funders and community partners, measuring the success of the backbone organization, and building shared leadership for collective impact work. This report reflects that panel discussion

Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech

The ACM SIGIR Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech was held as part of the 2007 ACM SIGIR Conference in Amsterdam.\ud The workshop program was a mix of elements, including a keynote speech, paper presentations and panel discussions. This brief report describes the organization of this workshop and summarizes the discussions

Promoting Cultural Humility: LGBTQIA+ Education for Healthcare Providers

Abstract: Purpose: LGBTQIA+ patients experience devastating mental health and substance abuse disparities. While our organization has a broad non-discrimination statement that includes gender identity and sexual orientation, there is no guidance for how to best serve these patients. Evidence suggests training sessions are a successful means of increasing LGBTQIA+ cultural competency, with “Safe Zone” identified as being especially successful on college campuses. The Healthcare Equality Index also calls for education to demonstrate healthcare organizations’ commitment to LGBTQIA+ patients. Intervention: We developed an educational workshop - Safe Zone – with university psychologists. This workshop included interactive exercises that focused on increasing empathy and cultural humility. Implementation: A formal pilot was completed with inpatient psychiatric nurses. Results demonstrated increased comfort interacting with and advocating for LGBTQIA+ patients, as well as increased knowledge of health disparities and terminology. The workshop, along with pre-and post-education survey data, was presented to key stakeholders in the organization. Outcomes: Safe Zone is now in the early stages of dissemination across the organization. This will give all staff the opportunity to increase their knowledge of LGBTQIA+ patients. We are consulting on clinical information changes happening within our organization. These include creating specific education bulletins to assist staff with asking patients about their LGBTQIA+ identity. Future Implications: We will examine if and how Safe Zone improves experiences for LGBTQIA+ patients. Safe Zone will inspire staff to advocate for their organization to be more inclusive of LGBTQIA+ patients. Education is one aspect of the Healthcare Equality Index, but also a critical step to creating an equitable LGBTQIA+ environment

1st INCF Workshop on Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and Taxonomy

The goal of this workshop was to agree on a general strategy for developing a systematic, useful, and scientifically appropriate framework for neuroanatomical nomenclature. The workshop focused on general principles that will serve as a basis for future decisions on implementation strategies. The report discusses the problems arising from the use of different parcellation schemes and use of different terminologies and highlights the need of a universal vocabulary for describing the structural organization of the nervous system. Workshop participants encourage the creation of an International Coordinating Committee for Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and propose short- and long-term goals for such a committee

ARMD Workshop on Materials and Methods for Rapid Manufacturing for Commercial and Urban Aviation

This report documents the goals, organization and outcomes of the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorates (ARMD) Materials and Methods for Rapid Manufacturing for Commercial and Urban Aviation Workshop. The workshop began with a series of plenary presentations by leaders in the field of structures and materials, followed by concurrent symposia focused on forecasting the future of various technologies related to rapid manufacturing of metallic materials and polymeric matrix composites, referred to herein as composites. Shortly after the workshop, questionnaires were sent to key workshop participants from the aerospace industry with requests to rank the importance of a series of potential investment areas identified during the workshop. Outcomes from the workshop and subsequent questionnaires are being used as guidance for NASA investments in this important technology area

NASA control research overview

An overview of NASA research activities related to the control of aeronautical vehicles is presented. A groundwork is laid by showing the organization at NASA Headquarters for supporting programs and providing funding. Then a synopsis of many of the ongoing activities is presented, some of which will be presented in greater detail elsewhere. A major goal of the workshop is to provide a showcase of ongoing NASA sponsored research. Then, through the panel sessions and conversations with workshop participants, it is hoped to glean a focus for future directions in aircraft controls research

The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)

This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and best practices, careers, learning, and credit. This article discusses the Code of Conduct, idea papers, position papers, experience papers, demos, and lightning talks presented during the workshop. The main part of the article discusses the speed-blogging groups that formed during the meeting, along with the outputs of those sessions

The Organization of Novaculite Tool Production: Quarry-Workshop Debitage Comparisons

Arkansas novaculite, outcropping in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, has been an important regional lithic resource for thousands of years. Because of the stone’s durability, by-products of past novaculite procurement and tool production and use activities litter the landscape in southwest Arkansas. Recent work situates novaculite quarries in the broader context of tool production and exchange systems. This article focuses on the organization of tool production, and explores analytical techniques that can be used to identify spatial separation of the lithic reduction process between quarry, workshop, and habitation sites