These are All Our Children
We are pleased to announce the creation of Billy Shore’s regular Substack Column. Click on or copy and paste this...
About This Episode
We are pleased to announce the creation of Billy Shore's regular Substack Column. Click on or copy and paste this URL https://tinyurl.com/Billy-Shore to subscribe. In today's column, Billy talks about the horrific conditions children (many of them US citizens) are enduring while being illegally held in Migrant Detention Centers here in the United States. Today, we are reprising a episode that we feel is really important to be heard. In May of last year, we released a podcast with three thought leaders in philanthropy, Jeff Braddock, who co-founded Bridgespan Clara Miller, who led the Heron Foundation and the Nonprofit Finance Fund, and Daniel Stitt of the American Enterprise Institute, and what they spoke about, about how philanthropy shows up in the face of so many challenges that we're experiencing right now. Assaults on human service organizations, assaults on social justice programs, feels even more important today as those assaults continue. This week, for example, some of the news that I've been following is among the most disturbing of anything, and we kind of, it feels like we say that week after week as developments unfold. But the story about children being detained in Dilley, Texas reminds me of what James Baldwin said when he wrote, "These are all our children and we shall either profit by or pay for whatever they become."Resources and Mentions:
Clara Miller
president emerita
Clara Miller is a writer, speaker, and advisor on finance, investing, and accounting. She is president emerita of the Heron Foundation (2011-2017), was founder and President/CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund (1984-2011), and chaired the US Treasury’s first Community Development Advisory Board in the Clinton Administration.
Jeff Bradach
The managing partner and co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, philanthropists and investors to break cycles of poverty and strengthen core civil and human rights. Bradach’s work focuses on consulting to leading nonprofits and philanthropists in the US and India. He writes and speaks extensively on nonprofit strategy, transformative scale, social sector leadership and philanthropy. He serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations including as Chair of Independent Sector. Prior to the launch of Bridgespan, Bradach taught at Harvard Business School, where he was a member of the Organizational Behavior and the Social Enterprise Initiative faculty. He is a graduate of Stanford University, elected Phi Beta Kappa, and completed his master’s in sociology and PhD in organizational behavior at Harvard University.
Daniel Stid
executive director
Daniel Stid is the executive director of Lyceum Labs, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of political leadership and party politics in the United States. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution (1998).
Bridgespan
Bridgespan works to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities. It is a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, philanthropists, and investors to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need. They are passionate about helping to find solutions to ensure equal opportunity and core human and civil rights. To achieve these objectives, they concentrate on four broad fields: education; children, youth, and families; public health; and global development. Their services include consulting to nonprofits and philanthropists, leadership development support, and developing and sharing insights—all with the goal of scaling social impact. What they learn from collaborating closely with social sector leaders, complimented by rigorous research, they share broadly to advance social change. The “bridge” in Bridgespan symbolizes their ability to connect and learn from the social and business sectors, donors and grantees, and ideas and practice.
Heron Foundation
Heron champions the people who believe profoundly in the promise of their community and who dare to chase the shared dreams for the place they call home. We work directly with local organizations that are embedded in, deeply trusted by, and inherently driven by the voice and vision of their neighbors. We invest in their know-how, skills, and determination to build a community that reflects and honors the dignity of all and where prosperity is shared. Heron does not operate as a traditional “funder.” Heron partners with communities to source relevant and actionable research, nurture a learning collaborative of peers, help communities reclaim their narrative of place and self, foster stronger collective agency and social bonds, and provide long-term financial support. We aspire to be, first and foremost, an organization that nurtures a network of local people advancing their communities and achieving the transformation they seek. Heron works mainly in rural communities experiencing persistent poverty, systemic challenges, historic disinvestment, and a legacy of disenfranchisement. We also believe that this model is applicable across all geographic regions, all socio-economic classes, and in urban, rural, and exurban communities alike.
American Enterprise Institute
The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. The work of our scholars and staff advances ideas rooted in our belief in democracy, free enterprise, American strength and global leadership, solidarity with those at the periphery of our society, and a pluralistic, entrepreneurial culture.
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