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Two Girls, A Little Boat, And 3 Big Lessons About Power

Fundraising Leadership

I’m a big fan of walking meetings, and we had a purpose for this one: to talk about partnering to make the new WeRule mentoring app available to Take The Lead participants. A retired journalist, she aimed to teach me to write with precision and parsimony. I’m still working on it. Together, We Lead.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year. 41 Mutualism harnesses the human tendency to collaborate, share, and construct institutions that last. In the 1970s, that number fell to 0.78 In the 1980s, it fell to 0.29 52 Indeed, it is.