Reading for Leading Change: March 2022

We recommend these two recent articles as you seek out new inspiration and innovative approaches to nonprofit leadership and social impact. What have you read lately that helped you lead your organization? 

1,000 Remedies to Structural Racism

The U.C. Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute’s new resource, The Structural Racism Remedies Repository, compiles 1,000 policy recommendations to address structural racism and achieve racial equity. The recommendations address areas where structural racism is most prevalent, including in policing, criminal justice, housing, transportation, voting rights, education, and others.  

Advancing Justice With Love

We appreciated this short summary of some of the late bell hooks’ writing about a “love ethic” as an antidote to oppression. She writes, “Domination cannot exist in any situation where love ethic prevails. … All the great social movements for freedom and justice in our society have promoted a love ethic.”