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From anguish to balance: Turning nonprofits around
In the Stanford Social Innovation Review today, Akaya Windwood of the Rockwood Leadership Institute and IDEX’s Rajasvini Bhansali shared “19 ways to turn your struggling nonprofit around.” They share...
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Un día para celebrar el maíz en México
In English here María Estela Barco Huerta en la oficina de DESMI en Chiapas México celebra el Día Nacional del Maíz el 29 de septiembre. Recientemente la Directora Regional de América Latina, Katherine...
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A day to celebrate corn in Mexico
En español aquí María Estela Barco Huerta in the DESMI office in Chiapas. Mexico celebrates the National Day of Maize on September 29. IDEX Regional Director Katherine Zavala recently interviewed María...
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Is “poverty porn” making a comeback? IDEX in NPR
In NPR’s Goats & Soda blog today, IDEX’s Director of Communications Jennifer Lentfer was quoted in the story, “At What Point Does A Fundraising Ad Go Too Far?” Are exploitative photos of the poor...
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Gratitude…beyond human calculation
By Rajasvini Bhansali, IDEX Executive Director What we have to be grateful for at IDEX this year is…life. Our overturned bus On November 6th, two IDEX staff and one IDEX supporter were involved in a...
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What I love
To commemorate 25 years of building a more democratic philanthropic sector, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) honored leaders who are making a difference in the local community...
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Does IDEX “walk the talk”?
By Jennifer Lentfer, Director of Communications. This post also appeared on Medium. The IDEX team has been working with a new consultant recently who asked us, “How does IDEX ‘walk your talk’?” It’s a...
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“Another world is possible”
At the end of last year, South Durban Community Environmental Alliance Director and Goldman Environmental Prize honoree Desmond D’Sa, traveled from South Africa to Nigeria to speak at a conference in...
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What happens when we stop “reacting”
By Verónica Moreno, IDEX’s Operations Coordinator As I stepped into the room that held BK Foundation‘s Second Annual Winter Leadership Exchange - Wisdom + Curiosity: Harvesting Intergenerational...
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Dreaming the Neighborhoods (video)
Who are the people in your neighborhood? It was easy to get upset at a tech bro’s privileged rant on San Francisco’s “riff raff” last week, but there are plenty of people in the Bay Area and beyond who...
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What do cherry blossoms teach us about climate justice?
By Jennifer Lentfer, IDEX Director of Communications It was just after daybreak on Easter morning. The crossing guard was tired, even though the hoards of people had not yet descended on Washington,...
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Philanthropy’s missed opportunity: Grassroots solutions to climate change
By Rajasvini Bhansali, IDEX Executive Director We were at a funders dinner the day after the People’s Climate March in New York City in 2014. Never before had the world seen a more unified global...
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“Listening, learning, paying attention, attending to, sharing power and resources… It’s all important. And then what? “How does that show up in the DNA of your organization? How does it show up in your...
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Rebuilding Nepal means supporting people to move forward (interview)
By Trishala Deb, IDEX Regional Director, Asia When the devastating April 25, 2015 earthquake hit Nepal, many Nepali organizations, including the Women Awareness Centre Nepal (WACN), sprang into action...
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A Masterclass on “Buen Vivir”
By Jennifer Lentfer, IDEX Director of Communications María Estela Barco Huerta, General Coordinator of IDEX partner DESMI in Chiapas, Mexico. “Everyone can conjur up what ‘buen vivir’ means to them. An...
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Poetry Pause: Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty Now!
Elizabeth Mpofu. Photo courtesy of ZIMSOFF. A poem by Elizabeth Mpofu, Chairperson of Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF), one of IDEX’s newest grantees. She is also General...
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Beyond climate change platitudes: Getting to grassroots solutions
In the Stanford Social Innovation Review today, IDEX’s Director of Special Funds, Joanna Levitt Cea, shared the article “Beyond climate change platitudes.” Joanna shares the reasoning behind the...
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Knowledge as Liberation
By Rajasvini Bhansali, IDEX Executive Director Grassroots workers, community leaders, movement builders, network weavers, artists, farmers, and healers are holding up what the world needs – cultural...
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The seeds of movement building
Learning exchanges are a key part of building grassroots movements and solidarity. Katherine Zavala is joined this week by three of our partner organizations this week in Brazil for the 7th National...
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Agroecología: Un camino para Defender la Madre Tierra
María Estela Barco Huerta, Coordinador General de DESMI en México, refleja sobre el intercambio de aprendizaje en agroecología que se realizó esta primavera en Uganda, organizado por el Fondo de...
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