For @npquarterly.bsky.social, @deepaiyer.bsky.social goes beyond the headlines to understand the expanding toll of the child detention industry, the impact on families, and how nonprofits - and everyday people - are responding: nonprofitquarterly.org/the-expandin...
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New at @npquarterly.bsky.social - BMP's Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social write about the solidarity infrastructure that our movements need to move beyond episodic solidarity.
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My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
Gratitude to Deepa who continues to offer tools for us to get organized.
[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in:
facilitating meetings
identifying roles
evaluating growth
bit.ly/49VL2nK
Thanks for including me!
From the emotions driving fascism to the promise of community #organizing - check out what we're reading, watching and listening to.
#Democracy #Noncooperation
https://horizonsproject.us/the-vista-december-2025/
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So does the publishing industry!
My toughest audience taught me about what matters in the midst of harsh news headlines and hopelessness. Read my latest Substack here:
open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...
Thanks so much for sharing!
If you know someone who is feeling
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
Oooh this sounds goooood
Join me on 12/12 for a public online workshop focused on deepening our social change commitments for 2026. Register at www.socialchangemap.com.
Great work, @deepaiyer.bsky.social! Important to highlight there is active resistance to white Christian nationalism.
Authoritarian movements seek legitimacy by invoking a “Christian America,” but a growing number of faith leaders and faith-rooted institutions are pushing back. nonprofitquarterly.org/voices-from-... @deepaiyer.bsky.social @buildingmovement.bsky.social
Thanks for speaking with me for this article, Guthrie!
“As authoritarian movements seek legitimacy by invoking a ‘Christian America,’ a growing number of faith leaders and faith-rooted institutions are pushing back more loudly and visibly.”
@deepaiyer.bsky.social @npquarterly.bsky.social
nonprofitquarterly.org/voices-from-...
Feel free to reach out!
Amazing!! Thank you for sharing!
Two decades after Katrina, community leaders offer lessons for nonprofits on how to support local organizations navigating climate disasters in an era of democratic erosion. nonprofitquarterly.org/twenty-years... @deepaiyer.bsky.social
Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinian civilians seeking aid hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza.
new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid.
said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”
DC feels both like the epicenter of a democracy in collapse —and the place where community care is being reimagined.
Sharing my latest essay on finding home in the DC area during this time:
open.substack.com/pub/deepaiye...
Thanks for sharing!