To set the stage for his 2012 budget message, Alachua County, FL Manager Randall Reid quotes Lao Tzu: “Great trouble comes from not knowing what is enough . . .”
The challenge for citizens today, he says, is to decide...
One day, when my mother was in her 70’s, she told me a story about how things had changed in her small town since she was a girl. She said,
When I was a girl, things were very different. When...
I would like to whisper a quiet caution to those of us who are investing in institutional or structural reform efforts. There is an intensifying stream of efforts to reform our institutions. In theUSthere is government reform, education reform,...
Tamarack president and co-founder Paul Born discusses ways to get people with different backgrounds and roles to blur the lines that divide them in addressing complex challenges such as poverty, homelessness or crime reduction.
Listen to the conversation with Hildy...
Vashon Islander Claire Bronson of c2bdesign.com contributed the graphic of the "We All Belong" event
"Welcome Vashon" is a creative hub for projects and activities that welcome, connect and strengthen belonging for everyone on Vashon Island, WA.
In summer 2010 a...
The community is the natural nest for hatching new enterprise — it is the birthplace and home of small business, which provides the largest growth in employment. Friends and family often provide the capital and sweat equity to start...
Everyone opened up. I opened up. I opened up my home for the progressive dinner and for Easter too. I never thought to do that before. I kept to myself mostly, maybe saw the neighbors across the street. People...
The path to restoring function to the family in a citizen society, not a consumer society, is quite simple. It begins with five questions.
1. What functions can we put back into the hands of young people?
Whether they are our kids...
When family members do not work or live well together we sometimes call the family dysfunctional. We prescribe professional help for the family or advocate for social policies that would support it—child care, parental leave, extended unemployment insurance, debt...
The phrase social innovation is surfacing everywhere. The European Union has just launched Social Innovation Europe. The UK has multiple initiatives around social innovation. President Obama has an Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The Canadian Government has established awards for social innovation. ...
This article, published originally by Nonprofit Quarterly, from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.”
The aircraft manufacturer Boeing,...