A tremendous amount of energy and attention is focused on providing a path to citizenship for America’s many immigrants, and appropriately so. Citizenship provides, first and foremost, the protections of the Bill of Rights and laws granting access to legal representation, governmental programs and so forth.... Continue
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One of the most overlooked aspects of nonprofit board development is the process of orienting new board members to their role of leading a nonprofit organization. Board orientations range from a comprehensive year long, month-by-month program of acquiring new knowledge about the organization to a... Continue
For nearly 10,000 years human beings have lived in a land of milk and honey. Milk and its derivatives are used ubiquitously as food, and the importance of cattle made them one of society’s first forms of money. Old African tribes like the Maasai still... Continue
The mission of this monthly column from Day One has been to answer the question: “What is the Progressive agenda?” The collapse of New Deal liberalism under the dominant Conservative movement, dating back over the last 40 years, left an ideological vacuum, which was filled... Continue
All seemingly stable systems are subject to perturbations and disruptions; what we perceive as stability is only the temporary emergence of fixed patterns within a container of unfathomable complexity, or what we commonly call chaos. We begin to think we can control chaos by adapting... Continue
In the insect world, drones are males suited for only two functions, mating and work. Actually, that sounds like many of the guys I know. Seriously though, male honey bees, ants and termites spend their entire lives working constantly at the behest of the queen... Continue
Many nonprofit organizations establish groups of advisors to give them guidance and support with special needs, including fundraising, program support, or increased prestige and visibility in the community. Frequently called Advisory Boards, Councils, or Committees, these groups provide a valuable way for nonprofits to connect... Continue
Why do we leave, abandon, disappear, walk away or never talk to someone again? Those silly fights or sudden break-ups, what’s that about? Twenty, thirty, forty years and vamoose... gone. What‘s up with that? Sometimes it’s a wife, a sister, a friend who just blows... Continue
If you’ve gone out to buy a coffee table or a dresser, you’ve most likely come across some with a “distressed” finish. Banged, scraped, rubbed, chipped, and worn, distressed furniture is new furniture intentionally made to look used and old. Setting aside the question “why... Continue
Conventionally, time as we know it is a socially-constructed artifact of civilization. Subject to the application of widely differing schemes, intervals, periods, adjustments and methods of tracking, time has been variously rendered according to the seasons, phases of the moon, growth habits of trees, birth... Continue