In 2011, as part of my first-year placement as a social work student, I spent time in a psychiatric facility.

Just before Thanksgiving, my dishwasher stopped working. Well, to be precise, it stopped stopping. One evening I set it, it ran past the...

In the Middle Ages, the strongest part of the town was its castle- often built atop the highest point of town and fortified by thick...

For the past month I have been traveling through Catalunya. I say Catalunya instead of Spain because in many of the areas here, the...

To solve a current crisis, it may serve us to heed words of wisdom from the past. In Daniel Pink’s popular 2009 TED Talk (at last count...

Experts advise that all new business ventures should begin with a "customer discovery" stage. The customer discovery stage seeks to...

In the data world, there is a term called “dirty data,” which is a funny phrase to me because it feels like it should be the title of a...

The irony is not lost on me that the girl who had to take Algebra four times has now become a go-to data person. To delve into the...

In my endeavors to identify ways to maximize efforts and outcomes for small nonprofits, I found myself exploring the value of annual...

What I’m about to say isn’t new.  In fact, it’s been written about again and again. So why am I bothering to write about what’s already...

Last week I wrote a grant application for a small nonprofit that serves people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. The experience...

I was once brought in to a nonprofit to turn around a failing program. This program accounted for a third of the nonprofit’s budget and...