The P Word: Process

The P Word: Process

By: Bess Langbein When I first started as the executive director of a fledgling community foundation, I dreaded the idea of a strategic planning process. The word “process” sounded like a lot of time and money.  Our small team was already stretched thinly, and...

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Collective Impact

Collective Impact

By: Bess Langbein & Adrianna Weissburg We’ve seen incredible examples of people coming together in common cause since the beginning of the pandemic. Whether it is wearing masks and getting vaccinated to protect the vulnerable, collecting and sharing food and funds...

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Leaning Into Our New Normal

I can’t seem to get the lyrics of Hal David and Burt Bacharach’s song from 1965, “What the World Needs Now is Love”, out of my head. Turns out that year the war in Vietnam was raging, riots broke out for six days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, and Malcolm X...

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