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Welcome to Be the Change: the Business, Politics, & Poetry of Doing Good!

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So what’s Be The Change about? I’ve run a nonprofit, Capital Good Fund, for 12 years and counting. During that time, I’ve made a lot of mistakes and learned a few things. In part, this newsletter is an opportunity for me to tell stories–some funny, some serious, some a combination of the two–about the day-to-day life of running a social enterprise. But beyond that, it’s a means of sharing ideas and insights on social change from a variety of perspectives: poetry, the nonprofit and business worlds, and public policy / politics.

I don’t have the answers to much, but I’ve thought a lot about the questions, be they related to climate change, immigration, predatory lending, income inequality, or mass incarceration. It is my hope that what I have to say, whether it is in the form of a poem, essay, or simply an anecdote, will resonate, inspire, and delight you. Each Be the Change post will be available at this link, but I will also send out a compilation of recent posts at least once a week; as the list grows, I may update to two newsletters a week.

You can check my previous newsletters here:

  • February 20, 2023 Be the Change Week 66: A Manuscript Seven Years in the Making
  • February 12, 2023 Be the Change Week 65: We'll Never Green the Economy Like This
  • February 5, 2023 Be the Change Week 64: A Pricing Conundrum
  • January 21, 2023 Be the Change Week 63: A First-Class Story
  • January 15, 2023 Be the Change Week 62: Clean Lending's Dirty Secret
  • December 11, 2022 Be the Change Week 61: Revolutionary Thresholds
  • November 21, 2022 Be the Change Week 60: Make Twitter A Nonprofit!
  • November 16, 2022 Be the Change Week 59: High Interest Rates Are Bad for the Climate
  • November 8, 2022 Be the Change Week 58: On the Midterms and Pyrrhic Victories
  • October 23, 2022 Be the Change Week 57: Desperation
  • October 17, 2022 Be the Change Week 56: Opening the Floodgates
  • September 18, 2022 Be the Change Week 55: The Most Important Clean-Energy Tech
  • September 10, 2022 Be the Change Week 54: Are You A Climate Hero?
  • September 4, 2022 Be the Change Week 53: How to Donate for Good
  • August 13, 2022 Be the Change Week 52: Historic Climate Action...Right?
  • August 5, 2022 Be the Change Week 51: The Danger of Hot Takes
  • July 30, 2022 Be the Change Week 50: The Antidote
  • July 16, 2022 Be the Change Week 49: Don’t Burn It Down, Laugh It Up
  • July 2, 2022 Be the Change Week 48: "Pro-Life" My Foot
  • June 26, 2022 Be the Change Week 47: Channel Rage into Change
  • June 20, 2022 Be the Change Week 46: The Golden Rule
  • May 28, 2022 Be the Change Week 45: A Funny, Not-So-Funny Thing
  • April 30, 2022 Be the Change Week 44: A Climate Plea--and Plan
  • April 24, 2022 Be the Change Week 43: Earth Day, 2022
  • April 11, 2022 Be the Change Week 42: the All-of-the-Above Strategy We Need
  • March 13, 2022 Be the Change Week 41: Everything Is an Everything Story
  • February 26, 2022 Be the Change Week 40: Ukraine
  • February 19, 2022 Be the Change Week 39: Pass the F*%king Bill!
  • February 13, 2022 Be the Change Week 38: Climate or Bust: An Historic Opportunity for Action
  • February 6, 2022 Be the Change Week 37: Merging Our On- and Off-Line Selves
  • January 17, 2022 Be the Change Week 36: Martin Luther King Day
  • January 3, 2022 Be the Change Week 35: Happy New Year!
  • December 25, 2021 Be the Change Week 34: The Spirit of Christmas
  • December 19, 2021 Be the Change Week 33: Churchill or Chamberlain?
  • December 11, 2021 Be the Change Week 32: What Keeps Me up at Night
  • December 4, 2021 Be the Change Week 31: After Thanksgiving
  • November 23, 2021 Be the Change Week 30: Anger's All the Rage
  • November 15, 2021 Be the Change Week 29: Birthday Reflections
  • November 6, 2021 Be the Change Week 28: Poetry
  • October 2, 2021 Be the Change Week 27: Big Business as a Force for Good?
  • September 26, 2021 Be the Change Week 26: The Stars & Stripes
  • September 19, 2021 Be the Change Week 25: What's Done in Our Name
  • September 5, 2021 Be the Change Week 24: California Dreamin'
  • August 22, 2021 Be the Change Week 23: Say It Ain't So, Solar Lenders!
  • August 9, 2021 Be the Change Week 22: Good Things on the Horizon
  • August 1, 2021 Be the Change Week 21: Billionaires in Space & Going Solar
  • July 20, 2021 Be the Change Week 20: the Unglamour of Good
  • July 12, 2021 Be the Change Week 19: When Good Isn't Good Enough
  • July 3, 2021 Be the Change Week 18: We're in a Climate Emergency, Part 1
  • June 28, 2021 Be The Change Week 17: Lessons from Fighting the Payday Loan Industry
  • June 20, 2021 Be The Change Week 16: A Big Announcement & the New Climate Normal
  • June 14, 2021 Be The Change Week 15: It’s Time for Corporate America to Put Up or Shut Up on Saving Democracy
  • June 5, 2021 Be The Change Week 14: The Right Kind of Ambition and a Bold Idea
  • May 23, 2021 Be The Change Week 13: Don't Bring a Watering Can to a Five-Alarm Fire
  • May 16, 2021 Be The Change Week 12: Everything Is Subsidized
  • May 8, 2021 Be The Change Week 11: Contradictions & Career Advice!
  • May 2, 2021 Be The Change Week 10: When Things Go Right!
  • April 25, 2021 Be The Change Week 9: Earth Day & Covid-19
  • April 17, 2021 Be The Change Week 8: Enough!
  • April 11, 2021 Be The Change Week 7: the Pandemic Radicalized Me
  • April 6, 2021 Be The Change Week 6: Ethical Business & Ethical Consumption
  • March 19, 2021 Be The Change Week 5: Racism & Extremism in America
  • March 7, 2021 Be The Change Week 4: A Good Day for Democracy
  • February 27, 2021 Be The Change Week 3: Real Ideas Don't Fit on Bumper Stickers
  • February 17, 2021 Be The Change Week 2: the Past 4 Years Have Poisoned Us
  • February 7, 2021 Be The Change Week 1: The Sky Is Blue

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