I started my first community organizing campaign with a group of friends when I was 14. Involved in formal and informal youth engagement work throughout my teens and early 20s, I got my first job supporting youth involvement and youth activism when I was 24. I haven’t stopped since then. Starting The Freechild ProjectContinue reading “Some Observations About Social Change”
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Nobody Owns Volunteering
Nonprofits searching for purpose after the ship went down… The ship’s going down and all the rats are swimming for their lives! A long time ago, back in the 1990s, the federal government decided to build the nonprofit volunteerism sector in the United States. At first this brought menial efforts from fledgling organizations that actually becameContinue reading “Nobody Owns Volunteering”
You Don’t HAVE To Volunteer
People want to accumulate engagement and experiences of engagement like they collect stuff, thinking all the time that the more they gather, do, think, talk about, wonder, and dream, the more engaged they’ll become. The Heartspace Teachings show that engagement is happening here, right now, in our day-to-day movements and ways of being. All ofContinue reading “You Don’t HAVE To Volunteer”
Adam F.C. Fletcher 