Startup companies
fromHarvard Business Review
8 hours agoThe Challenges of Scaling a Technology for Social Good
Access to safe sanitation is critical for over three billion people, impacting public health, gender equity, and economic development.
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fromPsychology Today
23 hours agoHow Community-Based Healthcare Builds Engagement
Most people leave doctor visits with prescriptions, but still feel unsure—instructions make sense, but no one asks about their life. In contrast, when a provider knows your name, remembers your story, and explains care in a way that fits you, the experience feels different—and that difference matters.
Healthcare
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 hour agoThe person who thrives during a crisis and falls apart during ordinary weeks isn't broken. Their entire operating system was built for emergencies, and peace registers as a system error because they never learned what competence feels like without urgency underneath it. - Silicon Canals
Crisis-thrivers are often dysregulated, struggling with normalcy after emergencies, revealing a deeper issue with their nervous system's response to stress.
Portland
fromPortland Mercury
2 hours agoGood Morning, News: Locals Push Back Against Zenith, Portland Fire Goes International, and Trump Has a Christ Complex - Portland Mercury
Portland Mercury promotes local journalism and arts, highlighting events like Pizza Week and local environmental advocacy against Zenith Energy.
London startup
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 day agoDatacentre developers tout benefits to local communities, but do they deliver? | Computer Weekly
Datacentre developments are causing challenges for local businesses, raising concerns about energy consumption and community impact despite potential local benefits.
fromArchDaily
14 hours agoMapping the Technosphere: Architecture as an Interface Between Systems and Territories
Architecture can no longer be conceived as an isolated object, detached from the technical networks that sustain contemporary life. This condition calls for new readings and approaches.
Design
Non-profit organizations
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 day agoThe Meaningful Reset: Designing Nonprofits to Survive Board-Staff Conflict | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges due to emotional investment, leading to conflicts that require careful analysis and intentional resolution.
Online Community Development
fromwww.housingwire.com
4 days agoCDFIs could draw institutional capital for climate projects
There is a strong desire for collaboration between institutional investors and community development financial institutions, but barriers exist due to perceived risks and lack of standardization.
NYC LGBT
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
6 days agoPepper Spray and the Courage to Stay | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Philanthropy and wealth work reveal insights about power, belonging, and democracy through narratives and community experiences.
Social media marketing
fromBuffer: All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses
6 days agoYes, You Can Create Content: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Getting Started
Developing a personalized system for content creation can help neurodivergent individuals maintain consistency and overcome challenges associated with ADHD and autism.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe person who always offers to drive, always picks the restaurant, always plans the trip is rarely the controlling one in the group. They're the one who learned early that if they didn't organize the connection, the connection simply wouldn't happen. - Silicon Canals
The organizer in a friend group often acts out of learned necessity to maintain connections, not from a desire for control or leadership.
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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe friend who always checks in on everyone but never tells anyone when they're struggling isn't hiding. They've simply never had the experience of someone noticing without being told, and after long enough, the idea of being spontaneously seen starts to feel like something that happens to other people. - Silicon Canals
Being the emotional caretaker in friendships can lead to neglecting one's own emotional needs and feelings.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe friend who always checks in on everyone but never tells anyone when they're struggling isn't hiding. They've simply never had the experience of someone noticing without being told, and after long enough, the idea of being spontaneously seen starts to feel like something that happens to other people. - Silicon Canals
Being the emotional caretaker in friendships can lead to neglecting one's own emotional needs and feelings.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoI'm 66 and I spent forty years trying to stay positive through everything - and what I actually created was a life where nobody knew me well enough to notice when I was drowning - Silicon Canals
Staying positive can lead to hidden struggles and emotional isolation, as individuals often mask their true feelings to appear strong.
fromLGBTQ Nation
5 days agoClassmates subjected a young teen to "relentless" homophobic bullying. Then tragedy struck. - LGBTQ Nation
Leyton's mother stated, 'None of the boys in that school accepted him. They told him they would never accept him for the way he spoke. He was a sassy speaker, more feminine - not the 'hard boy' type. This wasn't going on for just a little while.'
LGBT
fromSouth China Morning Post
4 days agoMalaysian group under fire for saying working from home will hurt city profits
The Federation of Malaysian Business Associations stated that a blanket work-from-home policy could cost the Klang Valley hundreds of millions of ringgit a month, emphasizing that these losses are expected to be 1.9x to 2.9x higher than the projected savings of widespread work-from-home arrangements.
Public health
Social justice
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
5 days agoSpeaking Up Almost Cost Me My Job, but We Built Power Anyway | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Workplace issues stem from structural problems, leading to burnout and low morale among staff in a nonprofit setting.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe person in your life who never complains and handles everything isn't at peace - they learned so early that expressing a need cost them something that they stopped expressing needs entirely - Silicon Canals
Being perceived as 'low maintenance' can lead to neglecting personal needs and emotional struggles.
Media industry
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 weeks agoPolitics in an Attention Economy | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Candidates must be cultural figures to succeed in today's American politics, navigating an attention economy shaped by algorithms.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoNot everyone who keeps a small social circle is protecting their energy. Some of them built a wide one once, watched it reveal exactly how many people would show up during an actual emergency, and quietly restructured around the answer - Silicon Canals
Small social circles often result from past crises that reveal true friendships, rather than a preference for fewer connections.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoThere's a kind of exhaustion specific to people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s - not physical tiredness but the cumulative weight of having been reliable for so long, for so many people, with so little reciprocity, that they genuinely cannot remember what it felt like to be the one who was taken care of - Silicon Canals
Reliability can overshadow personal identity, leading to emotional exhaustion and a lack of self-care.
Mental health
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoTrapped and Alone: Fear of ICE Is Deepening Postpartum Isolation for Immigrant Mothers | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Immigrant mothers face isolation and stress during childbirth due to fears of deportation and separation from family.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoLongevity researchers say the single behavior most strongly linked to healthy aging isn't exercise, diet, or sleep - it's maintaining at least one relationship where you feel genuinely known rather than merely recognized - Silicon Canals
Warm relationships at age 47 predict better health at age 80 more than biological factors like cholesterol levels.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoNobody prepares you for the exhaustion of being naturally magnetic - the way people assume your warmth has no limits, your attention has no cost, and your need to be seen doesn't exist - Silicon Canals
Emotional Magnetic Load (EML) describes the invisible weight of managing others' emotions while neglecting one's own needs.
Relationships
fromPortland Monthly
4 weeks agoFrom the Editor: Building Community Isn't Always Fun. Do It Anyway.
Proximity-based community organizing builds solidarity across differences through sustained engagement and shared material goals, fostering understanding that transcends initial disagreements.
Online Community Development
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoNo One Is Coming to Help-Except Your Neighbors
Building community-led resilience networks and mutual aid groups nationwide enables neighbors to support each other through overlapping crises including climate change, inequality, and government violence.
Marketing
fromBuffer: All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses
3 months agoWe Should All Be Building People-First Communities in the Age of AI
Human connection and community-driven trust outperform synthetic signals; prioritize building real relationships because people, not AI, scale lasting trust for brands and creators.
Online Community Development
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 month agoWellbeing Is Infrastructure | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
NPQ launches a seven-part series examining how technology, systems, and processes shape workplace wellbeing and organizational sustainability in nonprofits.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoHow to Help Communities Rebound from Crisis and Disaster
Disaster psychology provides an empirically-based framework for building community resilience and growth during crises through understanding predictable psychological phases and natural recovery mechanisms.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoNavigating the Messy Middle of Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery extends beyond the initial crisis phase; year two brings psychological challenges including chronic stress, financial strain, and bureaucratic delays that impair functioning and compound trauma.
fromBuzzFeed
2 months agoI Really, Really Needed To See These 23 GOOD Things Happening In America Right Now
They all follow the rule of 'only take one,' and you can rehide other shines you find. The entire city turns into a collective scavenger hunt for roughly a month, and it's common to see packs of humans hunting in the rain and snow, even at night with flashlights. In this small corner of the world, tucked into the armpit of the PNW, someone decided
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