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When I was nine years old, I broke my ankle falling off a tire swing in my friend Dustin’s backyard. It happened on a Tuesday, which meant the whole event missed the weekend gossip circuit and didn’t even qualify for school-wide attention until at least Thursday. By then, Dustin had started a rumor that I’d

Economic Update is a weekly nationally syndicated radio program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze their own financial situation as well as the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.

Business Podcast · Updated Weekly · Explore topics related to transformational community leadership including economic development, non-profit engagement, organizational management, and policy development. It's a candid conversation wi…

The phrase “too big to fail” once applied only to banks. Now, it may apply to retailers. When a company like Amazon or Walmart considers issuing its own currency, the question is no longer just one of financial innovation. It is a sign of something deeper. The ground beneath our monetary system may not be

Podcast · Russell Todd (@llannerch) · A podcast about Community Development practice: | Promoting its value | Sharing its learning | Connecting its practitioners

Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. The concentration of wealth means a concentration of power that puts the priorities of capital over those of the people. 

It was one of those accidental evenings that becomes permanent in memory, not because anything grand happened, but because something true did. I was sitting in a folding IKEA chair (the kind that never lets you forget you’re sitting in it) in front of a small art gallery tucked between a café that made surprisingly

Bioneers is inspiring and realizing a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons,…

We are currently working to build relationships with organizations, clinics, and providers in a collaborative effort to address the needs of individuals and families with limited or no access to healthcare. Our goal is to remove financial barriers for those who lack the resources or insurance to get the care that they need. This site is the future home of a healthcare clearinghouse where local providers offer free or discounted services and the public will be able to search for the care that they need for a price that they can afford.

The Community Service Network is a gathering place for organizations and individuals committed to helping those in our community who need it most. Each of us brings our own passions and missions—and that’s a strength. But when we come together, we can multiply our impact. Join the Community Service Network to connect, plan, strategize, share, and collaborate with others equally dedicated to serving our neighbors. Together, we can accomplish far more than any of us could alone.

I feel like there is a certain comfort in believing in malevolence. To think that some cabal of conniving overlords is plotting the slow erosion of our freedoms makes a kind of grim sense. It gives the chaos a villain. It offers a familiar storyline. And most importantly, it gives us someone to hate. There

LISC forges resilient and inclusive communities of opportunity across America – great places to live, work, visit, do business and raise families.

We are what we pretend to be. The trouble is, we have gotten very good at pretending. We wear the mask of confidence when we are unsure, the mask of tolerance when we are quietly seething, the mask of success when we are deeply in debt and can't sleep at night. We perform versions of

There are those who seem born already a few degrees off from the compass that most people follow. They live out of step, out of time, out of tune with the consensus rhythm. Not defiantly, necessarily, not always with some rebellious flair, but quietly, as if the codes the world runs on don’t strictly apply.