This article, entitled “Renewing nonprofits: Aligning power, money and vision” was published by PND by Candid as a commentary on January 13, 2022. In the nonprofit world, power and money can be uncomfortable topics. While we are focused on doing good, questions of power and how it manifests inevitably arise…

As we move toward winning the battle against Covid-19, we must confront two persistent existential threats that shape our world — global inequality and the climate crisis. These twinned challenges cannot be cured by any vaccine. In fact, existing global disparities will be exacerbated by the inability of billions to…

Race and power. Two powerful words packed with ineffable force. They have led us to march, protest and die. They resulted in hard won battles of independence in Asia and Africa from European colonialism. They resulted in the rise of the U.S. …

No words can sufficiently describe the scale of the loss and grief caused by the novel coronavirus. Its human toll is unimaginable. Millions of people have lost, or will lose, their jobs. At least 300 million children around the world are missing school. Cities have become ghost towns. As human…

WOMEN AND THE GARMENT INDUSTRY: POWERFUL CONSUMERS, MARGINALIZED WORKERS This is the first in a series of posts focused on women in the clothing and garment industry. Subsequent posts will focus on women in the global garment supply chain. When you buy clothes, do you think about where they came…

The first International Human Rights Day of the Trump presidency is unquestionably a powerful call to arms. This day celebrates the world’s adoption, almost 70 years ago, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — the bedrock of all human rights policy insofar as it recognizes that human rights are…

THE NON-PROFIT DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP DEFICIT: A CALL TO LIVE UP TO OUR IDEALS THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON HUFFPO. This is the second post in a series on building diversity in the non-profit sector. Despite the almost universal internal consensus about the importance of diversity, the facts paint a…

This is the first in a series focused on building diversity in the non-profit sector. Despite the internal consensus about the importance of diversity, the facts within our sector paint a different picture — one of greater homogeneity than expected and recurring instances of structural bias. …

NEGLECTED “TROPICAL” DISEASES: A SYMPTOM OF PROFOUND GLOBAL INEQUALITY Chikungunya. Chagas. Onchocerciasis. Schistosmiasis. Leishmaniasis. A list of big words, each difficult to pronounce. Before last month, I had not even heard of any of them. If I had somehow come across any one of these words in New York, I…