This article was written for and published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on June 25th. By Paul VanDeCarr The “How Do We Know” web site uses garden tools as metaphors to provide fresh language for exploring media impact. Shovels, for example, represent investigative stories that dig for the truth. For many storytellers — even advocacy…
Last week I attended the Edge Funders Alliance’s Just Giving Conference. The conference this year was entitled Better, Not More Towards a Just Transition: Principles and Practices for the Next Economy. While on a process level it didn’t hit all of the points Pia highlighted in her recent post about the Art of the Un-Conference,…
The following post first published on the IVOH website, one of our grantees, lifts up the work of another one of our grantees, Active Voice, and their new project ONWARD. By Ronnie Lovler Ronnie is an ivoh core team member and freelance writer, editor, and English/Spanish translator. Not too long ago, I helped out a friend who…
In 2016 The Beat Within will be 20 years old. This organization, started by David Inocencio in September of 1996 as a program within the Pacific News Service, gives incarcerated youth a space and publication to share their writing and art. David, and a group of volunteers including teachers, retirees, and other activists go into…
Sean Thomas-Breitfield is the Co-Director of The Building Movement Project, a grantee of TWI. We’re Pleased to share his recent reflection on the importance of relationships in movement building, a theme that strongly emerged from Building Movement’s insightful evaluation of the New Bottom Line Campaign. It’s great to see the power of relationships explicitly raised…