Author:
Jarvis Williams
Strategy Is Not the Problem: Why Issue-Based and Systems Approaches...
The Familiar Choice – and Why It Feels Real Organizations across the nonprofit sector—particularly those focused on protecting or strengthening democratic institutions—are operating under conditions where their decisions are no...
Defending Local Stability: The Business Response
How business owners and leaders can prepare for possible federal deployments, protect their teams, and advocate for their communities.
Author:
Jarvis Williams
Faith as a Civic Counterweight in the Southeast: A Philanthropic Ca...
On a Sunday morning in Mississippi, a pastor rises to speak. The sermon may begin with scripture, but it rarely ends there. It stretches into the realm of public life...
Author:
Jarvis Williams
When Strategy Signals Instability
What “A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding to Threats” reveals about the philanthropic field—and why strategic coherence matters Introduction: A Signal in the CEP Report...
Author:
Jarvis Williams
Organizing Under Political Stress: Structural Clarity Before Engage...
Governing Claim When urgency-driven national engagement meets place-based ecosystems managing the lived consequences of democratic decisions, risk is redistributed asymmetrically. If that redistribution is not understood and calibrated in advance,...
Democracy & Belonging: Learning Across the Atlantic
Listen to powerful conversations with organizers, thinkers, and movement builders in the U.S and Europe as they explore what it really takes to strengthen democracy from the inside out. This...
History, Resistance and Democracy: Reflections on Visiting the Phoe...
Members of the Growers Guild recently came together in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, they visited the Phoenix Indian School, which was established in 1891 as a boarding school for American Indian children...
Author:
Andrew Regalado
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Julia Roig
Facilitating a Big Tent: Critical Connections for Pro-Democracy Org...
As we enter the second year of the current administration in the United States, calls for coming together to collaborate across siloes within the pro-democracy sector are louder than ever....
ICE Violence and the Struggle to Make Meaning:
What Narrative Power Is Doing in Minnesota, and Beyond By Eleonore Wesserle The murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by ICE in Minnesota were not an anomaly or...