Beyond the Recession: Who Will Reboot the Social Sector?

Sidney | July 26, 2009

When it’s all said and done this is how the social sector’s late 2000s recession story might be written.

2008 – The late 2000s recession was finally acknowledged and it all suddenly came unraveled.
2009 – Nonprofits began to feel the effects of the recession and sector thought leaders issued their predictions.
2009 – The  “people” began [...]

No victims here. We are people (just like you).

Sidney | June 15, 2009

In 1964, American voting rights activist and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer spoke words into history by saying, “I have been tired for 46 years and my parents were tired before me and their parents were tired; and I have always wanted to do something that would help some of the things going on [...]

"Why Uplift?"

This blog covers the issues of our world community and the people whose innovative ideas will bring about sustainable solutions for the good of all. The word “Uplift” is used as a metaphor for “sustainable” social change. Uplift was borrowed from the ideology of “racial uplift” espoused by twentieth century civil rights leaders that sought new approaches to social change in their pursuit of racial equality. Similarly, today's innovators seek new approaches to social change that will uplift the human race.