On the path to a just, equitable, and regenerative economy, some things are getting closer and some are getting farther away. It can be hard to tell which is which. We have to be willing to look directly into the light.
This is Red Light/Blue Light.
On August 29th, a community forum in San Francisco discussed proposed legislation in California to create more transparency around donor-advised funds (DAFs). For the most part, representatives from opposing sides and opposite ends of the nonprofit spectrum used that time to posture and talk past each other, highlighting the deepening fractures within our community.
Read MoreIn the wake of last week’s historic reparations hearings, this felt like the right time to finally try and write down what I’ve been thinking about a lot this year (or really since my daughter was born 10 months ago). This odd, burning question: how can I be a great ancestor in this time?
Read MoreShe had recently been hired as a senior executive at her organization. As we were chatting about the respective difficulties of our chosen paths, she leaned in and said, “Be good to all the people you meet over the years, because you never know where they might end up.”
This is the colonizer’s architecture at play: all building bridges and climbing ladders. When you burn bridges, you lose access to ladders; and even when we start 100 floors above the rest, the idea of giving up a good ladder just seems like too much.
Read MoreIn another year full of unlikely events, one of the things I least expected from 2018 was a book to send shockwaves through the social impact sector and challenge my fundamental belief in the importance of social enterprise.
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