social impact
Advancing Together is a clarion call for all souls working to elevate community life, but this call is meaningless without a destination in mind. Some of the most successful interventions have advanced communities forward through housing-first initiatives, basic monthly income provisions, and in-school meals programs. The destination for these organizations
Whether consciously or unconsciously, organizations either activate a world-building or a world-receiving mode of operating in their everyday lives. World-building organizations generate reciprocal flows of energy that magnetize participation and fertilize growth. They exert a force on the world that galvanizes change, seeding inspiration along the way. World-receiving organizations take
The seed of social change is produced in the heart that looks around them and refuses to accept the status quo. This seed is nurtured by taking those humble first steps in the field of action and by forming those initial partnerships with other hearts who also recognize the need
Another aspect of everyday life that makes social relationships creating social reality more concrete is the employment experience. For every good experience, there are a multitude of souls who work every day feeling undervalued, externalized, and/or exploited. Many believe that the best tactic is to ‘grin and bear it,
In a previous post, I emphasized the powerful role that social relationships play in creating our social reality. One aspect of everyday life that makes this more concrete is housing. Going from the micro level to the macro level, households of various kinds must commit a share of their resources
In an academic field where scholars build their careers on introducing new ideas and research approaches, there is little incentive on keeping things simple and demystifying amorphous concepts. Within the field of sociology, society is a great example. Society is often described as something that is outside of human experience,