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Look for the Helpers

Amid crisis, people are always helping—protecting, restoring, and reimagining a better world. This newsletter highlights their work, reminding us we’re not alone. Let’s look for the helpers—together.

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Wild Love for the World: Helpers Inspired by Joanna Macy

Our beloved teacher and friend, Joanna Macy, has transitioned. Her legacy shines brightly and continues to grow worldwide, among people acting together for peace, ecological sanity, and re-connection.

Look for the Helpers: Standing for Peace and Preserving Life in Gaza

Gazans are living in dire conditions, facing food insecurity, and fearing for their lives. Here are some of the brave souls bringing relief, building peace, and centering everyone's humanity.

Look for the Helpers: Finding a Compass in the Chaos, Today

A conversation between Lydia and Leilani about responding to this week's events with a strong spine and a compassionate heart, the antidote to powerlessness, and focusing on what really helps.

Look For The Helpers: LGBTQ+ Leaders

The queer community is under attack, made vulnerable by reckless abuses of power--and here are some of the people and orgs defending, protecting, and celebrating our vibrant and vital queer family.

Look for the Helpers: Re-humanization as a Response to Attacks on Immigrants

Lydia and Leilani talk about the dehumanization of immigrants, emotional overwhelm in response to recent attacks, becoming unafraid of our pain, and the power of re-humanization.

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Look for the Helpers: Standing up for Immigrants

To the people whose humanity reaches across borders--we thank you.

Look for the Helpers: Protecting Our Rights

Lawyers, educators, advocates... these folks are fighting for our rights through the legal system, and fighting for the legal system itself.

Meet The Helpers: Fighting Fascism

"You will always find people helping"

Welcome to Look for the Helpers

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” - Mr. Rogers