For many years, I ran 1871, the No. 1 university-affiliated tech incubator in the world, from our headquarters in Chicago. During my tenure, we developed a number of sub-incubators focusing on various ...

Circle Practice is a type of restorative practice informed by restorative justice philosophy and grounded in Indigenous teaching which aims to build community, invite reflection, and model empathetic ...

Democracy is under attack, civil society is being dismantled, and catastrophic events such as fires, floods, hurricanes and other man-made crises have become the norm, not the exception. To “meet this ...

HELP MIGHT BE AVAILABLE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED. AND THE LIGHTS WE LOST LIGHTS FOR. I THINK ABOUT 3 OR 4 WEEKS. DID YOU GROW UP PREPARING FOR HURRICANE SEASON? NO, NO WE DIDN’T HAD WE HAD NOT ...

If we’re ever going to have a just economy, we’ll have to build it from the ground up. Flowing resources to front-line communities that face the worst of the climate crisis and the racial wealth gap ...

Ability Building Community invites the public to celebrate its 70th anniversary at a special Open House on March 26, from ...

It has been a wonderful first year of Maria’s Literary Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Maria’s Bookshop. Our team began this organization in 2024, the year that Maria’s Bookshop celebrated its 40th ...

Over the past decade, philanthropic leaders and others working for progressive social change have increasingly focused on culture. This growing interest in culture comes from a dual understanding that ...