As nonprofits, how we raise our money has a direct influence on how we do our work. For example, does one person do 95% of the fundraising? Are we careful with spelling donor names correctly or getting grant reports in on time? Do we communicate with donors when we...
"It is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if… anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a...
The Fall of Kabul mirrored the Fall of Saigon. From many corners of the military, I’ve heard tales of anger, betrayal, grief, and moral shame. Many veterans, including myself, fear for the ones left behind, condemned to a horrible fate by our political leaders. We are...
Armed conflicts end, and history records them as over. But in the minds, hearts, souls, and wounded bodies of the people who survived, wars go on and on. The land that suffered war bears scars for decades or longer. The generations that follow them bear their...
Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset) is a Native American attorney, teacher, and award-winning activist who grew up on the Penobscot Indian Reservation (Indian Island), Maine, and she is the author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based...
Jean Houston, Ph.D. is an innovative scholar, futurist, and researcher in human capacities, social change, and systemic transformation. She is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement and one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our...
Jane Hirshfield's poem "Let Them Not Say" has become something of an anthem in the environmental movement. For Earth day 2021, the Scottish eco-activist composer Chris Hutchings used it in making this beautiful and harrowing music video.Jane Hirshfield’s nine poetry...
OUR INDIVIDUAL STORIES BEGIN with the story of our creation. My creation stories have come to me through the teachings of my tribe. My tribe is Penawahpskek, the Penobscot Nation, a small island nation that floats in the Penobscot River. We are the people of the dawn...
I recently visited a spiritual community in Brazil called Source Temple. Drawing primarily on the teachings of Adi Da and A Course in Miracles, it comprises about thirty people from about ten countries, mostly Brazil and South America, ranging in age from 20-something...
“The quality of true genius is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously without losing your mind.” —Charles Baudelaire I’m a photographer. I‘ve been looking through the lens of a camera for fifty years, and through its tiny aperture, I find myself...
