Before the UN general assembly next week, I joined 1,500+ academics from 100+countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC, as recommended by the G20 Committe on Inequality led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social last year. Please share.

Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’

theguardian.com

AI will not kill fundraising; it will simply expose organizations that cannot articulate, in seconds, why their mission warrants support.

If your fundraising strategy depends on people feeling guilty enough to give, you are not building generosity; you are monetizing despair.

Potential donors aren't writing checks, attending galas, or clicking "donate". They are redefining support through their consumption, subscriptions, volunteering, and spending habits.

The future of fundraising belongs not to those who broadcast to the masses, but to those who connect deeply with dedicated supporters.

The old dome rises like a quiet memory between the narrow walls and tangled wires, while the hanging lamps sway above the street, illuminating a city caught between history and tomorrow.

The future of civil society will not be built through grant applications, but through organizations that create social value, mobilize communities, learn collectively, and build self-sustaining resource streams.

When one group's rights are stripped away in silence, everyone's freedom is quietly being undone. Standing up for LGBTQ+ rights and civil society today is not just about supporting one community. It is the only way to protect justice for us all.

It is time for NGOs to stop chasing resources for existing models and start asking, "What low-impact work are we ready to work away from?"

The most valuable capital in civil society today is not money in the bank. It is trust, relationships, community, knowledge, and the capacity to act collectively.

No matter how large an NGO's budget is, relying on a single source of income doesn't make it strong; it only makes it temporarily fortunate.

Financial independence isn't about securing bigger grants. It's about building an organization that can sustain its mission without them.

Three little witnesses sat in silence, seeing, hearing, and speaking no evil, while the outside world quietly perfected all three.

Donors should never be treated as mere sources of funding. Thriving organizations cultivate communities where supporters actively invest in shared values instead of passively fulfilling funding requests.

If fundraising remains "someone's additional responsibility," we aren't building resources; we are institutionalizing fragility.

We need to stop romanticizing volunteer labor. A system built on the expectation of free work is not resilient; it is sustained by burnout.

A civil society organization risks more by letting a single funder reshape its mission than by running out money.

An NGO trapped in a constant search for funding often has a strategic identity problem, not a financial one.

Efforts by totalitarian regimes to create a "new man" by dismantling organic family and social ties are doomed to fail. Ideology cannot overrule human nature.

Freedom is not choosing from options designed for you; it is the power to imagine - and build - what does not yet exist.

Against the vast silence of the sky, a solitary dove perches and reminds the restless world that peace, too, can be an act of courage.

Democracy dies not just when people lose the right to speak, but when no one is genuinely willing to listen.

Listening to young people isn't enough. Institutions must give them actual decision-making power.

A society that champions youth engagement yet fails to fund dedicated youth spaces is not investing in its future. Instead, it relies on under-resourced volunteers to bridge the gap.

The most insidious form of exclusion is not being denied a voice; it is being invited to speak after every meaningful decision has already been settled.

A cat lies quietly on the yellow line, reminding the hurried city that the bravest journey is sometimes simply staying where you are and belonging nowhere but the present.

The pandemic wasn't just a natural crisis; it was a crisis of connection. It exposed an uncomfortable truth: non-cooperation is a threat to everyone.

There is a difference between giving young people a voice and giving them power : the former can be symbolic; the latter changes the architecture of society.

The sun pours gold across the sea while the empty playground waits for laughter to return. The long shadows quietly remember those who once played beneath these trees.

Young people aren't disengaged from democracy; democracy is disengaged from them.