By Jarvis Williams What the Rooms Told Me Over the past three years, first as Director for Race and Democracy and most recently as a Democracy Fellow with the Horizons Project, I have had the … [Read more...] about The Authoritarianism We Have Not Yet Confronted
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Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy
How do we think and talk about the future? This is one of the tension points Horizons has identified within the social change ecosystem: our different feelings about and relationships to the future … [Read more...] about Our Relationship to The Future: Narratives, Imagination Skills and Futures Literacy
Strategy Is Not the Problem: Why Issue-Based and Systems Approaches Break Under Pressure without Defensible Decisions
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 … [Read more...] about Strategy Is Not the Problem: Why Issue-Based and Systems Approaches Break Under Pressure without Defensible Decisions
Faith as a Civic Counterweight in the Southeast: A Philanthropic Case for Investing in Faith‑Based Civic Formation
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 — into questions of authority, … [Read more...] about Faith as a Civic Counterweight in the Southeast: A Philanthropic Case for Investing in Faith‑Based Civic Formation
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 … [Read more...] about When Strategy Signals Instability
Organizing Under Political Stress: Structural Clarity Before Engagement Is a Governance Imperative
Governing Claim When urgency-driven national engagement meets place-based ecosystems managing the lived consequences of democratic decisions, risk is redistributed asymmetrically. If that … [Read more...] about Organizing Under Political Stress: Structural Clarity Before Engagement Is a Governance Imperative
