{"id":509,"date":"2011-10-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldcafe.com\/the-way-the-world-caf\u00e9-spreads"},"modified":"2015-08-16T02:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T02:30:44","slug":"the-way-the-world-cafe-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/the-way-the-world-cafe-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way the World Caf\u00e9 Spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Cafe Community Foundation Board President Tom Hurley leads off Week Two of our Harvest Fund Drive<\/strong> with this thoughtful post about the power of cross-pollination:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m continually astonished by how the World Cafe spreads&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>As when it moves virally through a community, conversations in one place sparking dialogues in others. A World Caf\u00e9 at the National Native American Economic Policy Summit inspired tribal leaders to take the process home and convene their own Caf\u00e9s on key tribal concerns.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>As when there&#8217;s a slow, steady uptake, word percolating through a company about a better way to address key business issues. Over the last year, we&#8217;ve hosted a series of World Caf\u00e9s for Marathon Petroleum as one leader after another has called after hearing about how colleagues have used the process to engage collective intelligence and shape collaborative action in their teams.\n<p><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>As when one World Caf\u00e9 host seeds transformative conversations around the world, in new and sometimes surprising places. After a World Caf\u00e9 training we did for Dr. Jessica Thompson and her Climate Change Education Partnership team at Colorado State University, she hosted Caf\u00e9s in national parks around the United States and then with communities in Mongolia as well! <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Help keep this gift moving. For over sixteen years, those stewarding the World Caf\u00e9 have ensured that the core ideas and process are freely available, helping people change the conversation in order to change their world. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now the World Caf\u00e9 Community Foundation needs your help. Please make a donation to help ensure that &#8220;the gift continues to move&#8221; &#8212; especially if you\u2019ve ever used the World Caf\u00e9 and found value in it for yourself, your organization, or your community. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m giving. I hope you do, too. <\/em><br \/>\n~ Tom Hurley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our immediate goal is to raise $25,000.00 by November 4, 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/fundraising.html\">Thank you to all of you who have already joined us in making this Harvest Fund Drive a great success<\/a>. Please make <em>your<\/em> valuable contribution to the World Caf\u00e9 Community Foundation now.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" enctype=\"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\" method=\"post\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"X454Y583Z93XL\" \/> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be helping to catalyze the most critical conversations of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cafe Community Foundation Board President Tom Hurley leads off Week Two of our Harvest Fund Drive with this thoughtful post about the power of cross-pollination: &#8220;I&#8217;m continually astonished by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[428],"tags":[177,175,149,174,173,172,176,171,178,50],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resourcing","tag-convening","tag-cross-pollination","tag-harvest-fund-drive","tag-marathon-oil","tag-mongolia","tag-native-america","tag-spark","tag-stories","tag-tom-hurley","tag-world-cafe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-8d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}