Notes #143: Your Organization Isn’t Remembering Its Past. It’s Remembering What It Decided to Keep.
What almost happened at your organization that no record anywhere will ever show?
Starting Over, Not Starting From Scratch: Jocelyn Wyatt on Rebuilding the Humanitarian Model
What Humanitarian Aid Often Misses
A man in a field office once applied for a micro-grant to open a wedding photo studio because people were still falling in love, getting married, and wanting to remember it.
As Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, reminds us, human desires do not disappear during displacement. People need love, belonging, and joy right alongside basic survival.
Notes #142: Every Crisis You Survive Quietly Decides Who Gets the Next One
Who on your team is quietly becoming indispensable simply because they got there first?
Democracy Starts in the Hallway: Students Bringing Students to the Ballot Box
Every year, four million students graduate from high school in this country. Most are old enough to vote, but too few get the encouragement and support to take that first step. My next guest set out to change that by enlisting students to help their classmates register to vote and have a voice in the decisions that shape their future.
Jahnavi Rao founded New Voters while still in high school. It now runs student-led, nonpartisan voter registration drives in 1,300 high schools across 42 states. Here’s the number she built the whole organization around.
We talk about the near-peer organizing playbook that got 85 percent of her own senior class registered to vote in three days, the research network she built to study a question almost nobody studies, and why spending her days with teenagers is what keeps her hopeful about the country.
It’s Jahnavi Rao on The Business of Giving.
Notes #141: The Freedom to Change Your Mind Is Never Only Yours
Whose plans are quietly resting on something you might be about to change?