Entries by Ag Innovations
Renewing our Vision, Mission, and Values
By Genevieve Taylor Dear Friends, In 2021, the board and staff of Ag Innovations took time to reflect on our vision, mission, and values — and our future direction. We took time to talk to an array of partners new and old, including farmers, agencies, NGOs, foundations, and the corporate world. We asked, “What’s deeply […]
Staff Highlight Q&A: Guadalupe Garcia, Project Coordinator
What do you love most about your work here at Ag Innovations? I love the diversity of different projects that we get to work on, from food systems to water projects. It really helps stretch my understanding and knowledge on natural resources. So I get to learn a lot about water and relevant water […]
Two Top Skills for Collaboration
By Genevieve Taylor The issues of today are complex, interconnected, and most importantly, can’t be solved alone — particularly ones at the intersection of agriculture, community, and natural resources and the environment, where Ag Innovations lives. However, collaboration is tricky business. There are so many ways it can fail, many try to skip it altogether. […]
From farms to schools: how a new roadmap will transform how we feed California schoolchildren
By Dana Pearlman I have the good fortune of being a senior facilitator for Ag Innovations. This past year, we partnered with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Office of the First Partner — Jennifer Siebel Newsom — to facilitate a multisector collaborative that devised a roadmap called “Planting the Seed: Farm […]
Open Position: Searching for a project manager!
Ag Innovations in Sebastopol is growing and we are looking to bring on a new Project Manager to join our talented team. Our new Project Manager will support our facilitation team in creating effective change processes with project management and coordination, communications and other support to Ag Innovations clients, Program Team and Senior Facilitator(s). The […]
This COVID Moment
This Covid Moment. The uncertainty, the change, the fear, and the gratitude are thundering through in intense waves. At Ag Innovations, like many of you, we have been “grounded”, working from home, working online. Can you imagine if this happened 20 years ago? At times like these, it is clear how fortunate we are to […]
Making the Leap: Five Recommendations for Facilitating Great Online Meetings
As we head into week four of California’s “shelter in place,” many of us are settling into our homes and a new way of doing business. Of course, there are millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, and thousands of others who are working in intense conditions on the front lines, and, while no […]
Systems Thinking for Intractable Problems: From Problem-Solving to Emergence-Seeking, by Joseph McIntyre
Where have all the simple problems gone? It seems that every group I work with these days is dealing with long-term, often intractable problems. Water management, ag land preservation, housing, climate change, and rural economic resilience all challenge the very way we think about problems and solutions. Multiple layers of complexity often obscure both […]
From Forests to Farms: a Learning Journey with California Water Action Collaborative (CWAC)
One of the powers of collaboration is that it compels us to face others across our assumed differences, as we acknowledge an area of mutual concern or care. Its strength lies in the power of relationship to move the needle on something we need, something that sustains us. As we realize the limited nature of […]
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