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Audacious realism
May 6, 2020
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about our human preference for comforting certainties over disquieting realities. When I was in elementary school, we did a fair bit of rote learning.
Changing the Narrative
Top Five Reasons to Add Social Impact Investments to Your Portfolio
May 1, 2020
Once again the bright winter holidays are upon us! And with the 2019 holidays comes not only a new year but a new decade.
The Tale That Numbers Tell
Lemonade
April 16, 2020
A friend told me the other day, “when life throws you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.” She was referring to the unwelcome changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic
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Breaking and remaking
March 18, 2020
The world is shifting. Or to be more precise, life as we know it has been shifting at a logarithmically accelerating pace for at least a few hundred years, and now we are also experiencing human society being shaken by a new pandemic. All around us systems we thought of as invulnerable are proving increasingly fragile.
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Ends and Means
January 28, 2020
This past weekend I was — like many others, I expect — badly jolted by the devastating news of Leila Janah’s untimely death at the age of 37.
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Happy new year and congratulations to the 2020 World Changing Women!
January 10, 2020
We hope your new year and decade are off to a propitious start! We are thrilled that Conscious Company Magazine and Kate Spade have recognized our own Julianne Zimmerman as one of the 2020 World Changing Women
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Come Celebrate with Me
November 26, 2019
As we head into the year-end holidays, the sub-genre of holiday- and particularly Christmas-themed entertainment seems to adhere to a nearly monolithic message.
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The Wisdom within a Minute
November 19, 2019
“You will live to regret it.” No one had ever said that to me before, nor would I ever expect it would come from the source it did. I was not having a conversation with a mob boss or a jilted lover.
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Upgrade from FOSO to JOSO!
October 30, 2019
Language is a strange and fluid thing. Words and phrases fall out of use and disappear; new ones enter common usage; both reflecting shifts in what we care about and altering the paths along which we think.
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I don’t know
October 17, 2019
More times than I care to count over the past few years, Ed and I have been in conversation with someone with authority to allocate capital who has said some version of, “I don’t know how to think about this.”
Changing the Narrative
Field Note: Recognizing Social Impact Investment Opportunity, 2019
October 7, 2019
2019 is proving to be a resonant year for social justice for a host of confluent reasons, including: Quadricentennial of the start of slavery in what became the United States of America
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What will you celebrate?
September 10, 2019
The popular practice of making new year’s resolutions has never appealed to me. Maybe it’s because for me the exercise feels empty and arbitrary.