Tag: community organizing
Ease, Flow, Pace
“We are in a time of collective upheaval, grief, and crisis. Yet, in the social good sector, we keep requiring ourselves and our colleagues to go at an unsustainable pace. And it’s hurting us…”
Keep going in (Part IV)
“How do we help people understand: you don’t have to cling, you don’t have to dominate, you don’t have to hide, you don’t have to confine yourself.” PART IV of interview with Onyango Otieno
Don’t stop believing (Part III)
“They made life a business. I didn’t want to stay in the market. I wanted to stay in a community.” PART III of interview with Onyango Otieno
So that we can see one another (Part II)
“We deserve equal time…We deserve equal measure of resources – just because we are here.” PART II of interview with Onyango Otieno
How to relate (Part I)
“I really love it when people connect to each other. Because it encompasses the idea that we need one another to make life work. We need one another.” PART I of interview with Onyango Otieno
Ancient Technologies
“This is the world I know I want to be a part of – one where we can all experiment, where we can stop performing, where we can belong, where we can relax, celebrate, and grieve and be confused…together.”
Back home
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
Community mobilization vs. organizing: Why are we here?
Where is the shaking of the foundations – literally and figuratively?
Sorry but it’s still not YOUR project
“Psst, excuse me, but if an international assistance project is a job or a hobby for you, it can’t actually be ‘yours.’ And if you think that it is, we may have a problem on our hands.”
Why I wrote about “smart risks” in philanthropy and why I would frame it differently now
What is so “risky” about placing relatively small amounts of money in the hands of people addressing challenges in their own communities?
The relearning
What is required for survival through the ages of not just bodies literal and figurative, but for survival of souls?
“They” and the shaping impulse of America
Do “we” need to help “them” understand the political and economic systems that have marginalized them?