The Giving List

I’ve been working with The Giving List team to profile non-profit leaders and organizations throughout California. Helping non-profits find the right story to tell the right audience is a passion of mine, and is a key part of my consulting practice, Storyforward.

Among the inspiring leaders I’ve spoken to for this project are JaMel Perkins, whose Freedom Forum works to stop domestic violence and sex trafficking; Emily Scott, who is helping birth the Courage Museum for the organization Freedom from Violence; and support of Freedom from Violence and Sparks (left) whose stewardship of the Masto Foundation is changing the blueprint for philanthropic giving.

The organizations I’ve worked with for The Giving List include Brady: United Against Gun Violence; East Bay Children’s Law Offices; John Burton Advocates for Youth; iFoster; A Home Within; National Center for Lesbian Rights; Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI); Futures Without Violence; Northern California Promise Coalition; Students Rising Above; Destiny Arts Center; Crowded Fire Theater; Center for Early Intervention in Deafness (CEID); San Francisco Public Press; Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness;

Art and Culture

I’m including below a small selection of writings, culled from the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, SFMOMA’s Open Space blog, The Jewish Week, the j, and other publications.

Be Here Now. An essay for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Moscow on the Hudson and A Minyan of the Marginal, for the Los Angeles Times.

King David and Maimonides, for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Anna Deveare Smith and the connections between race and education, for New York Jewish Week.

Antony Russell and the convergence of spiritual and racial identities, for the j.

Hundreds of other essays, articles, and reviews are google-able.

Art and Culture

This is more map-making than writing, but I created a visual tribute to an amazing community organizer named Marvis Phillips, as part of a project called “For You,” connecting artists and elders during Covid.