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Reos Partners is working with Bamyan Media, a small media company currently based in Cairo, Egypt on the following challenge:

How does a startup with no track record in Egypt, make and sell a Reality-TV show that supports and develops social entrepreneurs in Egypt on a massive scale?

Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the broader Arab Spring, Egypt is in the midst of an enormous social change and faces fundamental questions about its future. The iconic Tahrir Square continues to buzz with protest and political activity. It's a time of instability, uncertainty and opportunity for change.

In this context, Reos Partners was approached by Bamyan media who had previously produced a successful TV show in Afghanistan about social entrepreneurship.

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We are pleased to announce that the San Francisco based Berrett-Koehler will be publishing a new book written by Zaid Hassan.

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What do you do when gaps in society seem un-navigable? When the costs of getting things wrong are unpalatably high but where there is little trust and a weak appetite to work together?

In the last Reos newsletter, Colleen Magner of Johannesburg reflected on the question “What do you do when the stakes are high and the trust is low?” and why it is important in South Africa at this time.

To explore the question more deeply, Reos Partners Johannesburg convened a two-day public dialogue in partnership with the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in February 2013. The dialogue brought together a diverse group of South Africans from the corporate, nonprofit, activist, civil society, youth, and government sectors to explore how they might confront their most pressing cross-sectoral challenges, develop an appetite for trying things differently, and, most importantly, find better ways of working together. Members of Reos travelled from all of the global offices to South Africa to facilitate the discussions, share international experience and learn from the South African context.

In this article, we share some of our learnings, as a “Part Two” to the original article.

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Changing education at scale: lessons from Camp Snowball

Camp Snowball, a program supported by Reos Partners, is building students and educators’ capacity for systems thinking to better navigate the complexity of the world they are inheriting.

For the past two summers, Reos Partners has joined with the Waters Foundation Systems Thinking in Schools Project, SoL Education Partnership, Cloud Institute for Education for Sustainability, and Creative Learning Exchange to co-create a multi-faceted camp program designed to build students’ and educators’ capacity in systems thinking, education for sustainability, youth engagement, and organisational learning while building a learning community to support them after camp is over. By embedding these toolsets system-wide – in classrooms, schools, school districts, and communities – we hope to create better student outcomes.

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From the Toolkit

This exercise arose out of a game I learned from Philip Beaven in an improvisation workshop. The original game "Switch" helps actors and musicians practice fast mood changes: from happy to sad, from introverted to extroverted, and so on. We've slightly changed the original to create a great tool for understanding what is meant by "being present."

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In the last Toolkit, we looked at a basic card system (green, yellow, red) for collecting data around the opinions and perspectives “in the room.” This tool—the Soft Shoe Shuffle—is another way to gauge the temperature of both the individual participants and the collective as to what is happening in the group. This tool can be used to surface the opinions, emotions, and perspectives in the group, to understand the reasons behind them and how widely they are shared, and to shed light on what’s happening under the surface in the system as a whole.

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The role of multilateral and donor organizations in combating poverty is ever evolving alongside that of corporations. The past decade has seen increased recognition of market-based solutions. One encouraging sign? Upon taking office this summer Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, quickly invited in Michael Porter to talk about shared value concepts.

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