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Vollmer’s List: The Increasing Burden Placed on America’s Public Schools

Jamie Vollmer -
          From the beginning of my journey through the land of public education, I was shocked by how much we had added to the curriculum since the first schools were established. In order to keep track of the additions, I...
Friends & Neighbors

Change the Story to Change the World

Duane Elgin -
The next five to ten years represent an unprecedented break in the human journey. We are between stories, or the guiding narratives, that serve as beacons for our collective future. For example, the "American Dream" that pulled the U.S....
Friends & Neighbors

Gambling on Community in Las Vegas, NV

Richard C. Harwood -
I was in Las Vegas where I discovered a community — once on top of the world — fighting to come back in the wake of the Great Recession. What people in Las Vegas are doing offers a vision of...
Stories

Inspirations for 2012 Community

Jan Bennett -
Every new year ushers in with it new goals and resolutions made with the intent of betterment for self and community. For those who need a bit of encouragement for 2012 goal setting, State of the Re:Union passes along...
Peter Block

More Health, Less Management, Please

Peter Block -
The Columbia Journalism Review included in a recent issue a positive report on how health care is reforming. The report is distributed by the Commonwealth Fund. Well meaning, hopeful by design, but interesting to these eyes for its narrow...
Peter Block

The Fall of JoePa and a Return to Common Sense

Peter Block -
On November 9, Joe Paterno, legendary football coach of Penn State, got fired. His boss, the president of Penn State, also got fired. The reason they got fired was that eleven years ago, when they were told that their...
Stories

The San Diego Social Innovation Trust

Meredith McNair -
One of the greatest hindrances to solving a community's social issues is a disconnect between its public, private and philanthropic sectors.  Last April, San Diego consulting firm Harder+Company Community Research and a small group of community leaders initiated a...
Stories

PlacerSustain: One Community’s Exploration of the Possibility of a Sustainable Future

Jeffrey Bordelon -
We are in the midst of a global transformative change in what it means to be a "Community," and in particular, a Sustainable Community. At the heart of this change is the growing recognition that personal, social, and cultural...
Stories

Wiser Together: Partnering Across Generations

Juanita Brown -
Tucked away in the small Appalachian community of Burnsville, North Carolina, is a family farm and a place of meeting that has recently become the new home base for Juanita Brown and David Isaacs, co-founders of the World Café....
Friends & Neighbors

The Value of Public Service

Randall Reid -
We find ourselves today as public sector leaders working in an era of dynamic global economics, stormy political discourse and facing yet another crisis in confidence in our public institutions. Memories of 9-11 sacrifices of public servants have faded...
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Corporate Capture: Can We Find a Way Out?

This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...
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