Advocacy/Policy Change, Collaborate, Ecosystem Mapping, Issue Based Blogs, Social Impact Architects
What makes a community a place where you want to live? What can a community do to promote growth – beyond investing in economic development? With all the areas to work on, what is most important? How do we measure progress?As we have recently noted, the role of...
Impact Measurement, Issue Based Blogs, Organizational Assessments, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Social Movements, System Change
This week, the country honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., an American Baptist minister and activist who embodied the Civil Rights movement until his assassination in 1968. In honor of his great legacy advocating for social justice, this is the perfect time...
Collaborate, Guest Blogs, Issue Based Blogs, Organizational Culture, Social Movements
When #MeToo hit last year like a hurricane, it revealed not only countless accounts of sexual harassment and assault but also vulnerabilities in the systems and processes meant to protect individuals and employees. Just like after any hurricane, now is the time to...
Advocacy/Policy Change, Issue Based Blogs, Lean Start-Up, Social Impact Architects
Graduation season is upon us. This weekend I will be celebrating with my nephew Gabe, who is graduating from high school and heading to Fordham University this fall (#proudauntmoment). We love graduations – from the symbolism of closing one chapter to start another to...
Issue Based Blogs, Social Impact Architects, Social Movements
Last week in the social entrepreneurship class I teach, we started our current events discussion like any other, but the events in Parkland, Fla., and the resulting outrage around gun reform overshadowed every other headline. My students discussed it as I had taught...
Issue Based Blogs, Social Impact Architects, Social Movements
Like many Americans, my eyes were glued last week to the Olympic women’s halfpipe snowboarding event, watching 17-year-old American Chloe Kim defy physics with back-to-back 1080s (three full rotations) and a nearly perfect score of 98.25. Even more symbolically, her...
