Finding Balance: The Great Challenge
In my ongoing Learning and Support Group for executive directors of NYC nonprofit organizations (in conjunction with the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York), a recurring topic is finding and maintaining balance. One of the reasons these organizational...
New York City Executive Director’s Roundtable
I run a monthly Executive Director's Roundtable in New York City (in conjunction with the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York). This Learning and Support Group, open to executive directors of nonprofit organizations only, is designed to provide non-profit...
The Power of Stories to Build Connections and Create Change
In the book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan artfully tells the story of two individuals who grew up with dramatically different cultural stories. Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian man, was six years old in 1948, when his...
Stories and Context
Stories can differ completely depending on who is narrating them as well as the point in time that is seen as the "beginning" of the story. In her book, The Thirteenth Tale, a mystery about a family, Dianne Setterfield speaks to this: "I shall start at the beginning....
March 2008 Book Reading and Discussions
If you are in the New York City or Holyoke, Mass. areas, please come to the reading and discussion of my book, Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation. It has been described as: "A rare account of one white woman's journey to...
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