RSA Relevance

What do you think of the Fellowship Charter?

In October the Fellowship Exhibition was launched at www.theRSA.org/fellowshipcharter.  Many Fellows have added to the Exhibition their own personal pledges to inspire, support or enable their community and their fellow citizens.  We hope you will share your pledge with us here at the American Coffee House by repeating it as a comment.  We also want your feedback [...]

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Inspire, Support, Enable!

Fellows everywhere are encouraged to contribute to the Fellowship Exhibition and Charter http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/agm-2009/agm-2009-exhibition and particularly to make personal pledges and commitments against the RSA and Fellowship ambitions to Inspire, Support and Enable. The exhibition will be developed onsite and online over the next months.  What is your pledge?  After you’ve added to the online exhibition, please [...]

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Realizing the Full Potential of an Engaged Fellowship

One of the questions we hear in our discussions with Fellows is how should Fellows be engaged in project development – how exactly does that work?  The simple answer is that we are still not sure – the idea of empowering the Fellowship is still new and most Fellows were not asked to join on that [...]

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RSA Fellowship – matching supply to demand

RSA Fellowship – matching supply to demand. This post on Matthew Taylor’s blog speaks to some of the issues discussed at recent fellowship meetings about what Fellowship means. What do you think?

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Why did you join the RSA?

What does RSA Fellowship mean to you?  Why is it important?  These and other provocative questions are part of a really interesting discussion taking place on Matthew Taylor’s blog, The RSA – do you get it?   In addition to the issues raised there, I’m interested in whether the proposition is different for Fellows living outside of [...]

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RSA Archival Material and its Relevance to RSA Manifesto

I would be interested in discussing the archival material held at the House and its relevance to the RSA’s restated mission. Shipley’s original mission statement was to embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve manufactures and extend commerce. This was reworded around the time of the 250th anniversary to become the five manifesto challenges: encouraging [...]

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