Rethinking Philanthropy for Social Change
The thinking behind philanthropy and solutions programs has been: “Define a problem, design a solution, and measure its impact.” Then create a framework, and replicate across many other areas. Time and...
View ArticleThe Horse Told Me To Keep Walking
Anita La Selva watched her partner die a slow painful death after years of wrestling with his addiction. She felt “broken, exhausted, and at a loss,” and was grieving not just for him but for herself,...
View ArticleStirring a Child's Imagination
Artist J. Ruth Gendler was teaching poetry to children when they began to teach her about imagination. She came to describe herself as “an anthropologist of the imagination.” “Nothing happens that we...
View ArticleThree Ways to Manage Dread
Beth Kurland was on a flight when the pilot instructed people to fasten their seatbelts due to severe weather ahead. Beth describes how she was anxious for the rest of the flight imagining the worst....
View ArticlePicking Up Leaves
Charles P. Gibbs, having visited Hiroshima and attended conferences about the threat of nuclear war, felt depressed and powerless by the “human capacity to instantly destroy 80,000 lives,” and other...
View ArticleOne Experience Away from Discovering
The Honored Podcast shines a light on life-changing teachers across the country. This one features Kurk Watson, a drama teacher from Philadelphia, who also founded “OPEX Park, which stands for...
View ArticleCharles Bigger: On Philosophy
"Our contemporary tradition has made the ego so central. And it solidifies itself with the whole idea that knowledge is power. Essentially, this means that our relation to the world is a technological...
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