by Milena Fraccari | Jul 14, 2020 | ShiftHappens
When I think of the most important thing we do at The Pollination Project, I realize that above all else we are storytellers. Story is powerful. In many ways, story is the architecture of our lives. As humans, we are programmed to understand the world through stories....
by Milena Fraccari | Jul 6, 2020 | ShiftHappens
As grassroots service and individual action bloom in the world, we believe it is important that each changemaker cultivates a lush and verdant inner garden, too. This is why we advance the ideas of #heartivism, which is the intersection of heart and activism. Activism...
by Milena Fraccari | Jun 15, 2020 | ShiftHappens
“We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We...
by Milena Fraccari | Jun 8, 2020 | ShiftHappens
All across America, white people are wrestling with how to respond to the continued spectre of racial inequity and the brutal murder of yet another black man. Although there are a range of responses, the two I see as most tortured appear to be polar opposites, yet are...
by Milena Fraccari | Jun 8, 2020 | ShiftHappens
Theory of Change #2: Capacity, Relationship & Collaboration In 2007, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky were broke roommates trying to figure out a way to pay their rent in San Francisco. They had an idea to rent an air mattress in their apartment to strangers visiting...
