Beth Kanter

JANUARY 3, 2024

Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I just received my 2023 email.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2023

Leaving for my first in-person event in 2022 after two years of pandemic shut down. Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Rituals. (In I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

And this was just a way to honor the folks that are doing the work, and to give ourselves the space and time to think about the work and the luxury of being able to reflect on what success looks like. Winning looks like chaos when you’re uprooting broken systems and creating new ones. It reminded me of a few things.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Last year, I even held a video meeting with someone calling from one of the most unlikely places: a treehouse. As an organization, we partner with individuals and institutions that are working to transcend the status quo and white professionalism standards in their formal and informal rituals, routines, and policies.

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