From the beginning we were committed to this process being just, emergent, open to experimentation, and grounded in collaboration and learning.
Continue readingLooking Back: Updates from the Community Fund Design Group
About Sharing Power
At its core, this project is about shifting power. As the first stage of the design process wraps, I’d like to share some reflections about my experience and perspective about power through the design process.
Continue readingGWI welcomes Jenn and Mass to the team!
We at GWI are so happy to welcome two new team members to our collaborative Good Work!
Continue readingBe like a Turtle
I was asking myself: Is this the first summer we have had to contend with air quality hazards from Canadian wildfire smoke AND catastrophic flooding in our local counties and neighbor states? Then I heard that the ocean temperatures reached 98 degrees off the coast of the Florida Keys…
Continue readingBringing it Back Home: Democratizing Where We Work
Busy cultivating new and deepening existing relationships with organizations and individuals that have a desire to bring a culture of shared leadership into their own workplaces.
Continue readingGWI Welcomes Three New Board Members!
It is with gratitude and excitement that we welcome our newest board members, Allison Lamb, David Brownstein and Kate Cox!
Continue readingJust Transition in Action – Poughkeepsie
From hands-on activities that gave us a taste of what cooperation and competition feel like to crafting stories of regenerative futures, it was energizing to retreat from our regular day-to-day lives to connect and learn in an inspiring community of co-learners.
Continue readingRelationships We Build in the Sun
Last week climate change and strange weather patterns had a different idea in mind of what the start of summer means.
Continue readingTrue Change Comes From the Ground Up: Fiscal Sponsorship
We see our fiscally-sponsored projects as partners in our mission to build collective power.
Continue readingEmptiness and Germination
Death is on my mind a good deal lately. As part of a course I am taking, I have an assignment to plan the end of my life.
Continue readingSurviving The Future – It’s about truth, love and solidarity
The overarching theme of the course, Surviving the Future, was collapse: the collapse of the systems that uphold our current societies, especially looking at climate change as the initiator.
Continue readingDemocratizing Work: From Doubt to Buzz
We spend most of our time at work, so what better place than our workplaces to learn to practice democracy and work toward a Just Transition?
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