Finding Room for Error
A guest post by Mary Fifield The power of learning is not just a slogan for many of us working in the non-profit sector. It’s the value that undergirds the programs that we help deliver—programs...
View ArticleFriday’s Poetry Pause: “They Have Threatened Us With Resurrection” by Julia...
They Have Threatened Us With Resurrection (1980) by Julia Esquivel de Valesquez (translation from Spanish by Ann Woehrle) It isn’t the noise in the streets that keeps us from resting, my friend, nor is...
View ArticleWhen local leaders say, ‘Thanks but no thanks.’
A guest post by Scott Fifer Giving impoverished kids in rural areas—who currently have no schooling—the chance to go to boarding schools a couple hours away. Laying down a concrete floor in a...
View ArticleBecause love is why and how
This is not something they tell you within academic studies or job descriptions. But it’s vital: I was honored to have met Frank LaMere, a leader and activist of the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Tribe of...
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