“Sun and ladder,” Astrid Westvang Recently, as I was doing a Q+A session with a cohort of nonprofit leaders of color who are reading my book The Power Manual, one woman said to me, “Some of us were a bit triggered when we were reading your book. We felt that some of your ideas about
I leafed through my stack of mail the other day, and there it was: another colorful, overfull packet from Treesavers International (not the nonprofit’s real name). I opened the thick envelope and pulled out a stack of stat sheets, membership forms, and return address labels I’ll never use (seriously, nobody has called me “Andrew” since
“Airwaves,” Piermario On April 5, 2021, New America’s Open Technology Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, which I direct, released a joint proposal in which we make the case that the nation needs to invest a portion of the windfall proceeds from recent and anticipated auctions of public airwaves to seed
“Half a ferris wheel,” Eric Schepers “Philanthropy is a team sport,” observed David Risher at a webinar sponsored by the Boston-based nonprofit United for a Fair Economy earlier this month. As NPQ reported last year, spurred by the pandemic, Risher, an Amazon executive in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and his wife Jennifer, launched
Shaun Leonardo: I’m seeing a number of these questions regarding power dynamics that play out with the welcoming—or “acceptance,” maybe, is more appropriate—of a co-director. And I want to make one thing very clear: I didn’t take on this invitation to fulfill tasks that Allison [Freedman Weisberg] did not want to do. Nor did I
