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Vantage Points: Caitlin Murphy
Caitlin Murphy is the Strategy and Operations Manager for Live6Alliance. Tell me about your current organization, and your role in it. Live6 Alliance is a community development nonprofit in northwest Detroit. Our mission is to enhance quality of life and economic...
Resources for an Inclusive and Equitable Economic Recovery
As we continue to feel the full effects from COVID-19 to people, places, and businesses, recovery will be a long journey. We will continue to share resources and thoughts that may be of interest and value, and here are a few for this week: Leading a just and...
The Commonplace #11
Here at Virginia Tech, we are excited to be able to help our communities, even in small ways during this period of economic recovery. Our recent award from the Economic Development Administration enables our faculty and graduate students in the Office of Economic...
Wonder What’s Next? This Is How We Invent The Future
Guest contribution from Jill Hufnagel Never before have we collectively been under the kinds of pressure we’re experiencing globally in the moment that is COVID19. It’s as if we’ve all—at the same time—had the rug pulled out from under us. While the fall-out of that...
The Commonplace #10
As some of you know, The Commonplace is a collection of quick hits, links, and thoughts related in some way to our aim, to thinking about social possibility and the work for greater good. This week I swerve from policy to literature, contemplating resentment and...
Vantage Points: Agnieszka Bulacik
Agnieszka Bulacik is the co-founder and co-director of New Visions in Berlin, Germany. Q: Tell us about your current organization, and your role in it. I am the co-founder of New Visions. New Visions works with leaders to transform existing narratives into more...
The Commonplace #9
Let us consider new stories of ourselves and this moment. Stories of coming together, of seeing new ways to be and do. Even stories from the other side, of the people with which we disagree. We are all shaped by story, afloat in the waters of narrative. Stories have...
On Hopelessness & Healing In The Natural World
The Peace of Wild things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great...
The Commonplace #8
This continues to be a year of crisis, of challenge, and of change. How do our crises suggest new avenues for possibility for our world, and our communities? One thought: Our Overton Window may be widening. The idea behind the Overton window is that on any...
The Commonplace #7
I discovered a new podcast, Everything Happens. Especially relevant for days of difficulty, the episodes feature people who have learned from dark times. The host is Karen Bowler, a Duke professor of religion, a writer and mother who herself experienced the difficulty...
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