My Year in Cities 2024
Mexico City * Minneapolis, MN Duluth, MN * St. Louis, MO New Franklin, MO Columbia, MO Washington, DC (Photo is a skyline view of Mexico City along the Paseo de la Reforma, including the Diana The Huntress Fountain)
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My Year in Cities 2023
Berlin, Germany Leipzig, Germany * Washington, DC Columbia, MO Boonville, MO New Franklin, MO McPherson, KS * New York, NY
My Year in Cities 2022
Washington, DCFirst plane ride and first in-person conference since pre-pandemic. Columbia, MO and Boonville, MOAnnual Pilgrimage to the Pedaler s Jamboree. Jasper, ARQuality time in a cabin in the woods. Franklin, MO (x2)Katy Trail camping/biking.
My Year in Cities 2021 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Short list because 2020, but I did get in a few biking/camping trips on Missouri's Katy Trail.
My Year in Cities 2020 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Short list because 2020, but I did get in a few biking/camping trips on Missouri's Katy Trail.
London hospital trust to pay £250k to install LTN (Low Traffic Neighborhood) for public health benefits | Environment | The Guardian
Guy’s and St Thomas’ charity will fund low-traffic neighbourhood to tackle air pollution and obesity in Lambeth and Southwark Source: London hospital trust to pay £250k to install LTN for public health benefits Environment The Guardian
Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell | WIRED
The epidemiologist calls it the best of times and the worst of times, as good news on vaccines and testing coincides with a terrifying rise in cases. Source: Larry Brilliant Says We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell WIRED
🦠 Pandemic Podcasts
Some podcasts that I'm listening to for reputable news, information, and perspective during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Twitter lists for mobility and cities
Twitter lists are a great way to organize your timeline, focus on a specific topic, and stay up to date without following a lot of individual accounts. Here are some of my favorites in the mobility and city worlds:
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots | MIT Technology Review
Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a… Continue reading "Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing…
How Cars Transformed Policing | Boston Review
The rise of the car was a catalyst for the dramatic expansion of law enforcement, and a vehicle for the structural racism that makes policing a terrible burden on communities of color.
My Year in Cities 2019
No new cities this year, and just one big adventure back to Berlin, one of my favorites. Also discovered some great things upon giving Atlanta a second chance.
Berlin 2019
Some highlights from Berlin in October 2019. It was my second time in what has become one of my favorite cities.
10 things progressive funders must learn from conservative ones, or we are all screwed | Nonprofit AF
Conservative funders focus on the big picture, act quickly, do not micromanage, provide significant general operating funds, fund for twenty or thirty years, support leaders and movements, engage in policy and politics, and treat grantees as equal partners. Progressive funders—with a few exceptions—intellectualize, are severely risk-averse, focus narrowly, fund isolated strategies and programs,…
A Graphic Re-visioning of Nonprofit Overhead
How we visualize our understanding of nonprofit structure and programs shapes the overhead debate. It’s time to get graphic about our new ideas—to deploy fresh images to help educate the public, our funders, and ourselves. Source: Curtis Klotz, A Graphic Re-visioning of Nonprofit Overhead Nonprofit Quarterly
Navigating Funders’ Online Grants Management Systems – GrantAdvisor
If you’ve written a grant in the last year, chances are at least one of these things has happened to you. Your proposal is carefully crafted and ready to be uploaded and submitted. You access your account in the funder’s online system and spend the next few hours troubleshooting lost passwords, surprise character limitations, new Continue reading "Navigating Funders’ Online Grants Management…
Digital Security & Grantcraft Guide / Ford Foundation
Funders ask us all kinds of questions about our financial, leadership, cultural, and management capacities. Not once has a funder asked me about our digital security capacity, even when awarding $100,000-plus grants. This guide is geared towards grantmakers, but is also useful for grantees to self-asses our digital security threats. In the digital age, grantmakers Continue reading "Digital…
↜ GrantAdvisor: A TripAdvisor for nonprofit funders
A new service where nonprofit professionals can review and rate their experience with funders, see other nonprofits' experience with prospects, and read funders' responses to their reviews.
Finding a mentor – Signal v. Noise
Don t just look for people decades ahead of you. Also look for people just a few steps ahead. Their memory of your circumstances is much fresher. People tend to look for mentors who are too far afield. A mentor who’s 20 or 30 years on in their career. I think this is misguided. I think Continue reading "Finding a mentor Signal v. Noise"
Candid: The Foundation Center/GuideStar Merger’s Noteworthy Process – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
A very good hot take of the recently announced merger of two large nonprofits, and the investment and patience of the funder community in ensuring the time was right for the combination. They agreed to each build on their complementary capacities, meanwhile providing them to one another so they could grow to the scale a Continue reading "Candid: The Foundation Center/GuideStar Merger’s Noteworthy…