In the trenches, it’s not always easy to shift your focus from providing services to individuals in need to systems change that might prevent those individuals from knocking on your door or calling your hotline.…
Category Archives: Race and social justice
Power to the People: Engagement Governance
At the Nonprofit Governance Conference a few weeks ago in Tacoma, Judy Freiworth presented a radical vision for inclusive governance. She is calling it “Engagement Governance” and has developed her ideas in dialogue with numerous …
Putnam and Diversity
Robert Putnam is a Harvard sociologist and author of Bowling Alone. Bowling Alone popularized the concept of social capital and charted the decline of social capital in the US over the past 50 years. Putnam …