For forty years, Elyse Cherry has kept BlueHub Capital fixed on a single question while almost everything else about the work changed around it. Carrie Fox reflects on proximity, persistence, and the quiet courage of refusing to stop.

Elyse Cherry has run BlueHub Capital for forty years without ever changing its mission — and by changing almost everything else. She makes the case that purpose stays durable through proximity: staying close enough to a community to know what it needs next.

In 2020, the emergency gave leaders permission to act; today the urgency is just as real, only quieter. Carrie Fox reflects on what it takes to keep moving when the crisis stops announcing itself.

The instinct in uncertain times is to keep your options open. Tanir Ami built her foundation's strategic plan on the opposite bet — and this conversation is about why it's working.

Carrie reflects on her conversation with STRIVE's Phil Weinberg and the difference between the resilience you feel and the resilience you build. Three takeaways on mindset, muscle, and the cost of apologizing for the work that holds everything up.

Phil Weinberg has spent fourteen years building STRIVE into one of the nation's most durable workforce development organizations, and he thinks the sector has been wrong about overhead all along. This week, he tells Carrie Fox why the infrastructure nonprofits are taught to apologize for is, in fact, the product.

In this week's reflection, Carrie draws out three lessons from her conversation with Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation.

When the words that once built trust start closing doors instead, how do you keep communicating — and keep people listening? Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation, joins Carrie to talk about the art of plain language, the politics of the words we choose, and what it looks like to lead a public health communications network of 40,000 through one of the most turbulent moments in recent memory.