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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While it’s never the intended outcome of those initiating “stop energy” efforts (a term first coined by Dave Winer to describe a common experience in technology development), initiatives that only organize around the “stop” often end with that stage. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. isn’t a democracy.”.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Calling out leads to cancel culture; cancel culture is ineffective and divides us further. In today’s culture, calling out means publicly naming a wrong, an infraction, or a mistake; calling in means naming it privately. First, let’s make some distinctions. Sometimes people will surprise you. Sometimes they will disappoint you.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? The second wasn’t fully accomplished: to understand how gender dimorphism, in which too often women are dominated or considered of lesser value, became the cultural norm. Come on, admit it.