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So many community-based non-profits are staffed by hard working, brilliant, dedicated, white folks. These non-profits deliver services and improve lives for millions of people each year. Without these teams, lives would be poorer off.  Working in these communities, equity is a central topic. When the community you serve is from around the world, with a…

The non-profit sector in America is massive, by any measure. In 2021 there were 1.54 million non-profit organizations, with total revenues exceeding $2.62 trillion. And this list excludes universities which would add another $900 billion. As with household wealth, or donor lists, we can think of America’s nonprofit organizations as a pyramid: Many of the…

As the smoke clears from the Camp Fire, I remember another recent blaze that brought so much unexpected destruction. On November 27, 2016, a small fire started on a mountain top in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. The next day, that small fire was fueled by historically dry conditions and fanned by very…

In interviews with over 30 people from a diversity of communities around the United States, I learned these three rules for successfully integrating people, nature, and sustainability in your community. Watch this short video then let me know what I might have missed, or what other challenges are out there.