https://www.greenwood.place/news daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1497965268724-3QDFY488Y4VDVRPT8HFN/StockSnap_RA9MH8NC2X.jpg News https://www.greenwood.place/news/2024/5/14/greenwood-place-is-hiring-t7g9d monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c5f72d97-6683-4b45-afea-64238db28016/image-asset.jpg News - Greenwood Place is hiring! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-rsp5c-n89gt-jfl57-aeex7-3wedg monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4e4d1c5c-570f-464f-aab3-be878a3841e6/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Rooted by Sarah Langford Freya and her dad both loved this book and it’s making its way around the Greenwood Place office at the moment. Langford documents her return to her family’s Suffolk farm and the farmers who teach her regenerative farming. It’s an accurate portrait of modern British farming: a lot of stress and occasional moments of pure joy... Rooted asks what it means to care for a place over generations, and what communities owe to the landscapes that sustain them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b35331f8-0477-4dfa-97f4-b830cb7cd318/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - A Christmas Carol If you can’t make it to London’s Old Vic theatre this year for Matthew Warchus’ smash-hit production (which you absolutely should if you can!), try the Muppets’ film retelling as a stand-in. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 as a sharp societal intervention; the heart of the story is not Scrooge’s transformation but the community that surrounds him - people who, despite scarcity, continue to show warmth, solidarity and humour. Coming back to community is, in the end, the true miracle of the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/67cb25ca-b479-4124-bd6c-0a6e98c07e08/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - Babette’s feast Gabriel Axel’s 1987 film is a luminous meditation on hospitality. Babette’s feast, her work of art, softens an entire Danish community and reveals how generosity can lead to reconciliation and love. A beautiful watch for dark evenings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/15208384-642c-4a18-b918-6ac640853b7b/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - Stone soup The old folk tale begins with a pot of water and a single stone, and ends with a communal feast. As neighbours add what they can - a carrot, some barley or a sprig of thyme - something larger than any one person emerges. A simple reminder that community often starts with one small invitation. There are many versions of the story but Paula Rego’s illustrated version is exquisite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a8e7224a-1253-4db3-b34b-a183be7ac042/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - A gut-wrenching problem we can solve Bill Gates recalls a 1997 column by Nick Kristof which prompted him to learn about diarrhoeal disease and to back work that has helped cut child deaths by more than 70 percent. Rotavirus vaccines, clean water and simple treatments like oral rehydration salts have transformed what was once a leading killer. Progress remains fragile, but it’s one of global health’s clearest success stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/14685a5d-e616-4961-8526-9d47fc478816/unnamed+4.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - Shared reading Shared Reading brings people together to read poems and stories aloud, pausing often to sit with a line or a memory. There’s no preparation and no pressure - just voices and close attention as people connect, and share experiences using stories and poems. We loved our recent visit to spend time with the team at The Reader in Liverpool at their Calderstones’ home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/de83f8b5-5da7-42a5-8caa-34ef59f0b908/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - The art of community Drawing on centuries of wisdom, the Art of Community by Charles H. Vogl lays out seven time-tested principles for growing enduring, effective and connected communities. Vogl argues that community isn’t formed by accident but by the steady cultivation of shared stories, rituals and values. “A group may share interests, but a community has connections so that members care for the welfare of one another.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/861b2cd1-f63c-48c2-a164-dce68003c59a/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - the paradox of growing both community and wealth In our most recent Pathways roundtable, Sasha Fisher from Spark Microgrants and Leah Bwari Okero from Village Enterprise discussed their work in helping poor, rural communities to grow stronger and richer. There’s a paradox that both wrestle with and that this interview with Rebecca Adamson brings to life. Adamson contrasts the dense networks of connection found in subsistence economies - where rights to land, water and livelihood come from belonging - with the weaker ties of cash economies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/54e44905-c4d4-48bf-aa05-aee919f92cae/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - art and health Research suggests that looking at art may strengthen our health in ways we rarely measure. Galleries and cultural spaces bring people out of isolation and back into shared experience. Thank you to Elizabeth Brooks for sharing this article, which is particularly welcome as the days shorten in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/80d189c2-5864-4e7a-bb20-47fb40eb7975/unnamed+%288%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 48 - AND FINALLY... At this time of year, we’re reminded that community is often made in small ways: a shared meal, a walk with friends, a reading, an act of hospitality. In that spirit, Greenwood Place’s office will be closed for a couple of weeks over Christmas and New Year, but there is plenty of time before then to drop round for tea and mince pies - and maybe some ice-skating at Somerset House. Let us know if you are passing. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-rsp5c-n89gt-jfl57-aeex7 monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/96cd0be1-ec58-46a2-a78b-d7fb916daace/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table How to Know a Person by David Brooks Brooks explores the art of truly seeing and hearing others. His argument is simple but profound: good conversation is an act of moral imagination. In a time of division, he makes the case for listening as the foundation of civil life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/aa99a65f-2fd9-4fb7-9660-6e6b17ecc660/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - BOWLING TOGETHER A healthy democracy depends on citizens’ sense of connection to each other, and that sense depends on participation in organisations of all kinds, from churches to bowling leagues. This is a film about why you should join a club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/92066bcd-9adb-490c-8234-9927d888bc2f/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - The man who planted trees We’ve recommended this short film before but it’s worth repeating. Jean Giono’s story of a shepherd who spends his life planting acorns in a barren valley was turned into Frédéric Back’s Oscar-winning 1987 animation. It’s exquisite — a reminder that patient, purposeful action can, over time, transform both landscapes and lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d6da69cb-bc56-42e5-9295-591a084ca863/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - The great good place Last week Rebecca’s husband and son walked into a merry and bustling pub in the Yorkshire Dales. The Farmers Arms in Muker had been closed and on the market for two years, until more than 500 villagers raised over £500,000 to buy it back into community hands. Ray Oldenburg writes about the “third place” — informal gathering spots, neither home nor work, that knit community together. As public life fragments, keeping such places alive feels more essential than ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/092ccfb1-2d8e-4c84-bf22-235f496d1a46/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - The power of choirs A BBC war correspondent once told us that in the aftermath of conflict she often saw people form choirs. Singing together, she said, was a way communities found strength again. Choirs remain one of the clearest expressions of community: people from different backgrounds warming up together, rehearsing imperfectly, and joining voices. The Helen Bamber Foundation’s Choir, Woven Gold, performed at Greenwood Place’s launch party back in 2018. They sound just as good now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ef09ebe1-17f6-4c49-bfed-e0ef2a025365/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - High conflict - amanda ripley Ordinary differences don’t have to become toxic. Ripley examines how conflict escalates into entrenched hostility, and how people can find their way back to common ground. A humane and practical guide to disagreeing better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/f7f587d7-06fd-4594-a47d-65ea3f206acb/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - On being with john Paul Lederach Conflict mediator John Paul Lederach reflects on the “moral imagination” — the ability to envision relationships across lines of division, and to nurture the slow, patient work of peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/3aa8760a-2092-45c9-8439-8cbbaf21d047/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - ‘sometimes’ by sheenagh pugh William Sieghart, author of the Poetry Pharmacy series, calls this poem an “anchor of optimism”… “Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail. Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6d274687-6b1e-41d8-b86a-0cb9a696f385/unnamed+%288%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 47 - Educate girls Educate Girls has made history as the first Indian organisation to receive the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's premier prize and highest honour. Often called the Nobel Prize of Asia, it recognises greatness of spirit and transformative leadership. We have been part of Educate Girls’ journey since the founding days of Greenwood Place and we are all SO proud. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2025/9/17/practical-wisdom-for-greenwood-place monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1758117572927-P1A52CQAKUXUMR0FAXMV/unsplash-image-xAgmY6x0yQE.jpg News - Our Principles of Practical Wisdom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2025/7/30/greenwood-place-summer-reading-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/688f6ae9-583c-40e3-b734-2ebc3f88d086/IMG_2152.jpg News - Greenwood Place Summer Reading 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-rsp5c-n89gt-jfl57 monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/de0166ef-1c62-4157-bcc0-16e540d031df/1.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table The Extended Mind In The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, science writer Annie Murphy Paul offers a compelling reappraisal of how we think, learn, and solve problems. Challenging the long-standing assumption that intelligence resides solely in the brain, Paul draws on cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, and education research to argue that much of our best thinking happens outside our heads—through our bodies, our physical environments, and our relationships with others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7f9d1b99-8cde-49c5-b6be-430d5361a8d0/2.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - The man who planted trees Jean Giono’s 1953 short story about a shepherd who quietly reforests a barren valley was brought to life in Frédéric Back’s exquisite, Oscar-winning, 1987 animation. A timeless reminder of how patient, purposeful individual action can transform both landscapes and lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7fe42e57-dea6-4ecf-990a-d340c96fbe4a/3.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - WHERE ARE THE MEGAFAUNA NOW? Our ancestors lived alongside mammoths, cave lions, and giant sloths. Why has mammal size decreased over human history and what does it tell us about our impact on the world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2b61f606-f238-47cc-b262-528c6e5ded59/4.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - ATTENBOROUGH AND THE SEA DRAGON A prehistoric sea creature buried in the cliffs of Dorset. A team of scientists. And David Attenborough, at his storytelling best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/798e1646-cf23-4404-bc5e-e81b1a663424/5.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - AI ON EARTHQUAKE DETECTION Seismologists are now using machine learning to predict aftershocks and locate early tremors faster than ever. This real-time innovation is already saving lives in vulnerable regions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8c35a6a5-c1a5-418d-81b1-681905d3c4fd/6.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - THE RACE TO REINVENT CEMENT Without concrete, the modern world wouldn’t exist but cement, the glue that holds concrete together, produces carbon dioxide as a major byproduct. The prize lies in tweaking the recipe for cement, such that the process locks away carbon dioxide from the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/19f9471b-aa4c-4bad-9d90-6f11879f3066/7.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - YO-YO MA IN THE FOREST Cellist Yo‑Yo Ma performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 under the trees, by a stream in the Great Smoky Mountains. With profit from the video donated to EarthPercent, the film captures the interplay between music, nature, and stillness - and shows how artists can help us see the world differently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/81fd2b99-c981-421f-811d-cf8a577d45a1/8.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - FROM OUR COMMUNITY Heal Somerset - the Greenwood Place supported public access re-wilding site - is now home to 1,000 new trees, new species sightings and its first on-site youth summer programme. We were excited to read this month that the first wild beavers have arrived on site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/12952952-dd03-49c6-85c3-cc27135ee234/9.jpg News - Briefing No. 46 - OrACY IN SCHOOLS Peter Hyman, co-founder of Voice 21, argues that cultivating communication, empathy and reasoning, and the ability to "disagree agreeably" is more important than it has ever been. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-rsp5c-n89gt monthly 0.5 2025-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/f827d62b-db34-4a04-bce4-270056748af8/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Is A River Alive? Robert Macfarlane spent five years researching and writing Is A River Alive? At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not a mere matter for human use, but living beings – who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0bf9f09b-68fb-4ece-a1db-7f2d3702caa2/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - INVISIBLE HANDS “I remember 1974 well. The government introduced a three-day week. Power cuts were common - we would be plunged into darkness without warning…” David Dimbleby’s short series traces the history of the free market revolution and the invisible hands that shaped it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/50e73479-bab6-4c30-b61c-23e668b3709b/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO PRESERVE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION? We were delighted when community leader and Greenwood Place partner Ndinini Kimesera Sikar was invited to deliver a TED Talk this year. Drawing on her experience growing up in a family of 38 in a traditional Maasai village in Tanzania — where every chore was shared, every story was sung and belonging meant survival — Ndinini explores how we can blend the old with the new to build the life we want, encouraging us all to ponder our list of "must-haves" for the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/73b57d14-0ef1-492e-9375-ed301a501536/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - 20 YEARS TO GIVE AWAY VIRTUALLY ALL MY WEALTH In case you missed it, the Gates Foundation will double its giving this year - closing its doors permanently on 31st December 2045. Bill Gates lays out the thought process behind his decision in this open letter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e8406918-84e2-469a-8ab4-574deac0498d/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - WHAT DO GOVERNMENTS SPEND MONEY ON Governments around the world vary considerably in size, even after accounting for underlying differences in economic activity and population. They also differ in terms of how they prioritise spending. Visit the Our World in Data site to learn more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2f67b1a3-8272-4821-90fa-ae54df03b321/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - TREES Natascha McElhone narrates this beautiful letter by Herman Hesse on a walk through Kew Gardens in London: “For me trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e2cb5dfa-258b-4ab6-92d6-dc1e5cc426dc/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - OCEANS Oceana UK, a Greenwood Place grantee partner, estimate that 90% of the UK’s marine protected areas (MPAs) are open to bottom trawling -undergoing more than 20,000 hours of suspected bottom trawling in 2024. If you have watched David Attenborough's new film, Ocean (if you haven't, we recommend getting a ticket and watching it on the big screen) you will have a sense of what this means for marine life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8fe0cba3-7448-438c-bb27-d21a45d7d823/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS Britain’s politics is increasingly fragmenting. Playing a distinctive role in this is a group that More in Common calls ‘Progressive Activists’ – the group of highly educated, politically engaged Britons who make up one tenth of the population but are significantly overrepresented in online political debates and in the charity sector. Our friends at Pears Foundation have supported a fascinating report by More in Common which takes a detailed look into the worldviews and attitudes of “Progressive Activists”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/007b5ab3-e97b-4f77-8377-b0f6adb371dc/unnamed+%288%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 45 - AND FINALLY... REAL-TIME AI VOICE TRANSLATION Google Meet can now translate a foreign language in real-time. Google is starting with English and Spanish, with more languages coming in the next few weeks. At Greenwood Place, we're super excited about the potential for us to speak more easily to grantee partners for whom English is a second or third language. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-rsp5c monthly 0.5 2025-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bafebf9c-21cf-4116-853c-f77da2c718d9/filip-baotic-APNbuv8mje4-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Fundable & Findable: The Brand-New Way to Fix Your Nonprofit Fundraising Greenwood Place advisory board member Kevin L. Brown has just published this brilliant, practical book. We’ve had the privilege of both working with Kevin and reading a preview of his book - and it’s great - crammed full of insights gleaned from Kevin’s work with social entrepreneurs across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ffeb4238-9d6f-45b3-9a74-65ce81e94320/shaojie-yjll5Pfe97E-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - How to have a serious disagreement with a friend Simon Sinek on how the most powerful act of resistance in our polarised world might be talking with someone whose beliefs you find absurd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8f117320-b539-44a5-89d6-3b31c005131c/ben-sweet-2LowviVHZ-E-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - ANTIqua et nova AI is a wonderful and scary technology. It forces us to re-examine the big questions. What is intelligence, what is consciousness, what does it mean to be human. The Vatican has published a profound and - we thought - helpful paper on the relationship between AI and human intelligence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d4291bc7-7502-4234-8ef0-5f6e634f3d2d/maria-ziegler-jJnZg7vBfMs-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - FInland’s zero homelessness policy Remember Covid? When lockdowns began, those of us in the UK saw people who had been living on the streets or in shelters housed in a matter of days. Finland had been working to achieve zero homelessness long before Covid with remarkable levels of success, and continues to do so today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/221b4aee-8f33-4e42-894e-e3adfc6a7d83/daniel-leone-g30P1zcOzXo-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - Wisdom in the age of information “We live in a world awash with information, but we seem to face a growing scarcity of wisdom." Maria Popova believes it’s the storyteller’s role to interpret information and shape it into wisdom for the rest of us to share. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2674398d-7099-49a5-8dac-c16f4bfd7719/umit-bulut-qbTC7ZwJB64-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - The mental health of small charity Ceos We’ve seen a wave of senior leadership changes in the charities we work with over the past few years. And most of our partners are more robust, mid-sized organisations rather than “small charities”. Fair Collective surveyed 350 leaders in non-profits with an income under £1million - the results are worrying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/81c43fa8-ecd8-45f3-87c2-e8df9a860884/julia-craice-faCwTallTC0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - Project Resource Optimisation In light of changes affecting nearly all USAID-funded work, a team of economists and experts in global development and humanitarian settings have come together to identify high-impact, cost-effective and shovel-ready humanitarian, health and development activities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/dfeb0740-06f0-4266-9c6e-3914795f640f/jordan-wozniak-xP_AGmeEa6s-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 44 - 2025 skoll awardees Our friends at the Skoll Foundation have announced the amazing 2025 Skoll Awardees for Social Innovation (including one of Greenwood Place’s fabulous grantee partners). We’re delighted to see this group of high-performing, life-changing organisations. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/336d10a9-092f-49fa-8ec7-7f16551e3e62/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table The Coming Wave Our Christmas reading is Mustafa Suleyman’s guide to the AI revolution that is just beginning, and the transformed world it will create. Suleyman outlines the opportunities and challenges ahead and establishes “the containment problem” - the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies - as the essential challenge of our age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/9bb2889f-51d2-47e7-a0a8-68a930dc2309/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Open AIo1 We’ve had a mind-blowing experience testing OpenAI’s latest model, o1 (nicknamed Strawberry). It suddenly feels like the coming wave that Suleyman discusses is a lot closer. The game-changer is the new version’s reasoning ability - it shows its train of thought and tries different strategies to reach a solution. It can solve Maths Olympiad questions as well as PhD level physics, chemistry and biology problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ab5775a1-3e21-4eca-b8b0-136c58c78b04/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Join or Die Just as a nation couldn't function with half its roads gone, Robert Putnam - author of Bowling Alone and the Upswing - argues our society cannot thrive when the pathways connecting people to one another have disappeared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7f463313-2f57-40b6-9500-edcf8136ac65/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Persuasion and the Power of Storytelling When people think of advocating for their ideas, they think of convincing arguments based on data, facts, and figures. Professor Jennifer Aaker’s animated film discusses how, if you share a story, rather than statistics, people are often more likely to be persuaded. And when data and story are used together, audiences are moved both intellectually and emotionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/99e34979-8765-4e9a-ac79-725201865659/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - George Mitchell: War and Peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East Diplomat, lawyer, former Senate Majority Leader and nonagenarian George Mitchell discusses a long life in public service in a fascinating conversation with Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4683db81-9116-4cb9-982d-ce9dfbf19ca3/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Secret Life of Prisons For insights into the UK criminal justice system, the Prisons Radio Association’s podcast is well worth listening to. This episode features a lecture delivered by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was imprisoned in 2016 at the end of a family visit to Iran. She vehemently denied the charges made against her but remained in prison until 2022. She talks about what she learnt from the experience and explains her passion for penal reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/df8cfb82-6d01-4dcf-aaf3-804e2e292d7c/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Maria Popova’s Life-Learnings Somewhere along the way, you realise that no one will teach you how to live your own life - but here are a few things that Maria Popova, writer and thinker, has learned over the years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/841e399b-1109-42be-bdf9-46e99545efe0/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 43 - Winter Stories Rebecca has a friend who reads Bleak House by Charles Dickens every winter. Rebecca herself is re-reading A Winter Book by Tove Jansson - a collection of short stories that Ali Smith describes as “pieces of shattered light.” We’d love to hear the books that you turn to for replenishment when the days are short and the world feels difficult and complicated. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77-d4pth-jzp9y monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/161a591f-120d-468f-b25a-3ac35cd8a982/1.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Paul Collier’s Left Behind is a brilliant, wide-ranging account of how centralised authority and economic orthodoxy have deepened the divide between well-to-do and “left behind” places, hollowing out communities and damaging life chances. It is one of the best books we’ve read in a long time. Highly recommended. Chapter 6 of our office copy is almost entirely underlined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2317f781-4c36-4370-b541-8e1db4de5b16/2.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - Pathways to Change “Thank you for an energising, mind stretching, emotionally uplifting retreat this week. There was a spirit of kindness and a commitment to relationships, in the room as well as beyond, that made our time together a lot of fun as well as intellectually fulfilling.” The first Pathways to Change programme is drawing to a close. We loved the opportunity to bring together a cohort of philanthropists and social entrepreneurs focused on tackling global poverty, and it was fantastic to see almost every participant at the Pathways residential a few weeks ago. If you’d like to learn more about the programme and to consider participating in 2025/26 please let us know. In the meantime we’ve uploaded the factsheets that accompanied the programme, click the button below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/08eeec5c-be70-4a39-8612-70558e377795/3.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - Six Inches of Soil Six inches of soil feed 8 billion people. Soil is probably the most valuable resource on the planet. This is the inspiring story of British farmers transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7888d9cb-4441-40f7-9fab-c59f04c2f051/4.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - What3Words what3words divided the world into 3 metre squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It is the easiest way to find and share exact locations. It is used now by 85% of UK emergency services to quickly locate people in need of help and by an increasing number of NGOs globally to improve response times and ensure critical aid is delivered exactly where it’s needed. Rebecca’s husband also uses it to label his landscape paintings. Add it to your phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ba07181a-0dfb-4a0d-95a8-df78482cc653/5.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - Step Into the Pages Disney veteran Glen Keane, himself son of a cartoonist, has animated some of the most compelling characters of our time. Step into his world as he uses VR to draw in 3 dimensions where, as he says, “That doorway to the imagination is a little wider”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4cdc22b3-355f-41e3-8a02-fbab049a3841/6.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - Child Mortality: 1751-2022 A child born into one of the poorest countries today faces a one-in-ten chance of dying within the first five years of her or his life. In rich countries, the rate of survival is as high as 99.8%. We have made tremendous progress in reducing child mortality globally, but we still have a long way to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bad88b5a-d625-4951-aebc-f15bc2793db3/7.jpg News - Briefing No. 42 - The Body Keeps the Score We came across this simple, animated summary of Dr Bessel van der Kolk’s ground-breaking book, the Body Keeps the Score. Van der Kolk is one of the world’s leading experts on trauma, exploring how mental unwellness doesn’t just take a toll on our minds; it affects our physical selves as well. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m-kk69r-e2j7p-jzhsm-addsn monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1728491818754-BVVHF2U6EH4VC0SRWS7P/unsplash-image-rDVP7whoibw.jpg News - Pathways to Change Programme - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x-dgc77 monthly 0.5 2025-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/13dd79c7-43e6-4854-984d-845ba54e6cbe/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Slow Productivity by Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for productivity based on three simple principles: Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. Every Summer we close the Greenwood Place office for two weeks of reading, research and exploration. Newport’s book heads our list this year - see what else we’re reading here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d385b3c1-d79b-4319-86ab-3c4b15bf77bc/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - The Velvet Queen High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/25a943e8-ae22-460b-871a-23ac1b2e5269/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - Three Words That Nick Cave Likes As the world divides into its various factions, these are words that are increasingly important. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2fcfa9d0-438e-43fd-9e1b-fc8f7507cdce/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - The Beautiful Game The first Homeless World Cup took place in 2003 in Graz, Austria. Ever since then, Mel Young and team have been using football to support and inspire people who are homeless to change their own lives and to change attitudes towards homeless people. Bill Nighy brings their work to life, watch here. And football can do even more. Here’s how. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b6d4ba88-ff3c-4792-a751-b1a4acba862b/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest In 2019, Nemonte Nenquimo helped win a historical lawsuit against the Ecuadorian government protecting more than half a million hectares of Waorani ancestral territory from being auctioned to oil companies. Nemonte and her partner Mitch left a copy of the book with us in the Greenwood Place office this month. It’s full of wisdom, sadness and joy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b458cc50-4f3c-4e85-a77b-38db78440274/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - Building A Socially Conscious Business Sir Peter Vardy has been an inspiration and a mentor for us at Greenwood Place for many years. This interview with Sir Peter and his son Peter - talking through their approach to socially conscious business, social action and legacy (listen to Sir Peter at 20 minutes in on how he views legacy and the value of entrepreneurial thinking in social action) - is full of lessons to take away. Thank you to Phil for sharing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2e3281bc-a8d4-49b7-82ac-fc4b9d823492/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse We regularly buy Charlie Mackesy’s book as a gift for families and friends, and find the 2022 animated film reviving every time we return to it. “Most of the old moles I know wish they had listened less to their fears and more to their dreams.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e09b78dc-a04a-4fd5-9dfe-de5e6d09b9c9/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 41 - The World Is A Mountain The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c593ffe0-d468-4d11-9241-47baf9460822/unnamed.png News - Briefing No. 41 - Greenwood Place’s Annual Report Our Annual Report for 2023/24 is now online. This year, Greenwood Place has achieved a significant milestone…We have surpassed £100M in our directly managed grant-making. In 2017, our first year in business, we oversaw £500K in giving and we have seen our giving grow steadily year on year since that date. A huge thank you to everyone in our community who has been part of this milestone and our journey. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m-kk69r-e2j7p-jzhsm monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/37df2c43-48b5-4af8-931b-93a05b9a89e5/dec92fb4-edf8-405b-8247-8969ac756b06.jpg News - Greenwood Place Summer Reading 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m-kk69r-kw9js monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2a833b9d-de93-445a-a00d-76b70ba53698/asya-LGcLObmme7k-unsplash.jpg News - The Greenwood Place Annual Report 2023-2024 https://www.greenwood.place/news/2024/5/14/greenwood-place-is-hiring monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c5f72d97-6683-4b45-afea-64238db28016/image-asset.jpg News - Greenwood Place is hiring! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww-s2j8x monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bd7fbbcd-1e30-4c84-92c6-ea4e0f53cdb3/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table "Out of the Ordinary" by Marc Stears is an elegant essay on the need to recognise the value in down-to-earth, small scale activity as well as the grand scheme. Stears draws on the work of mid-20th century British writers and artists to propose a way of building the future that focuses on a tangible shared history. It’s inspiring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/afbebb8e-a36a-4081-b454-29d63fdca3ae/unnamed+%287%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - Tunainuana (Together We Rise) CAMFED is a pan-African movement supporting girls to go to school, thrive and become influential leaders and changemakers in their communities. Below is a private link to CAMFED’s powerful film, Tunainuana, which shares the life story of Lydia Wilbard, CAMFED’s Executive Director of Learning and Engagement. As it will be premiered at a film festival in the coming weeks, we ask you not to share the film on your digital platforms at this time. But please do watch it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/99ac51d3-482d-4329-8c60-7c1ff8a2072e/unnamed+%288%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - Putting Relationships First Did you ever have the experience of reading something that put into words something that you knew to be true but hadn’t quite articulated? This happened to Rebecca when she read the Relationship Project’s Case Maker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/f17a1ef3-45da-4103-a886-a3e2d909c635/unnamed+%289%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - One Day Directed and produced by Graeme and Jennie Montgomery, One Day is a multi-award-winning short film about LandWorks’ pioneering approach to prisoner resettlement. If you click just one link from this edition of the Briefing, make it this one. And watch the full 7 minutes. It’s worth it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/edf2d8f5-0bc3-48a0-9983-854720c9b50a/unnamed+%2810%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - Bill Gates spends $9 Billion a year Chris Anderson, Head of TED, has become obsessed with the idea of what he calls “infectious generosity”. In this interview with Bill Gates - perhaps the Typhoid Mary of infectious generosity - Chris explores Gates’s motivations for getting started in philanthropy, what he’s learned along the way and what he’s excited about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4c0bbcd4-dcb2-4255-abd6-48fcff0ab42b/unnamed+%2811%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - Blessings It was a privilege and a blessing to listen live to David Whyte reading his poetry on stage at the Skoll World Forum last week. This short film gives a taster of his work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8f5c3943-7741-4a34-bdd7-0da02a136e67/unnamed+%2812%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 40 - And Finally… Penguins National Geographic filmed a group of young penguins learning to swim - and jumping off the edge of a 50-foot ice cliff. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch-px5ww monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8fde2446-1744-4b2c-a0a7-759439b3bc42/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table "Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?" by Chris van Tulleken is an engrossing, fast-paced, and alarming, tour of the science of processing and the reality of foods that are no longer even faint echoes of the real food they mimic. Van Tulleken outlines what the evidence shows about the biology and psychology of eating in today’s world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2ec4f281-67e4-48c3-84c8-fff94e657613/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - Not The End of The World Dr Hannah Ritchie is an environmental data scientist and researcher at Our World in Data as well as the author of “Not the End of the World”. Ritchie’s TED Talk is a great primer for her book - sharing the data that illuminates a path towards a future that is good for both planet and people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8bc3f505-8017-4543-9ff4-2d743c6737a5/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - My Last 5p In this beautiful radio programme, Matthew Syed explores how the effects of one seemingly small act of generosity can ripple outwards, creating a larger tapestry of consequences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/40ed129c-907a-450e-91c8-e39ec8855411/tom-bradley-EOiscqXPmkM-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - Gene Therapy for Deafness Yiyi, profoundly deaf from birth, can hear her mother and dance to music due to a new type of gene therapy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/44c617e7-13aa-44e5-8c85-0116d74c9683/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - State of the Sector New Philanthropy Capital's State of the Sector report is just out - exploring the views of charity leaders, charity users, and the public on where UK charities are. Key findings include: - Charities prop up state services by £2.4bn a year - Only 15% of the public think that charities are too political - 59% of the public are not confident that charities are working where they’re most needed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d3f4fa4d-030c-440b-9306-e21b178a5f1a/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - Sora OpenAi's extraordinary text-to-video model Sora, can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt. Be amazed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/808b95e6-f749-4e91-9773-78973c462aa5/namroud-gorguis-FZWivbri0Xk-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 39 - And Finally… Blackstar Eight years since David Bowie’s death, we revisited the blend of jazz, codes, brutality and drama that made up his final, brilliant album. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm-jrpch monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8433889d-b09c-4811-8689-caccbee27214/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table Thirty years ago, the main population question was “How can we stop the world reaching 24 billion?” Now, falling child bearing and falling death rates in almost all countries raise different questions. Dr Sarah Harper’s book 'How Population Change Will Transform Our World' provides a coherent, intelligent and crystal-clear analysis of global shifts and the opportunities of demographic change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ab1d6ec9-b40d-4bd0-8c1f-2790b29d135c/rowan-heuvel-e-S-Pe2EmrE-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 38 - Freedom From Want The 2022 BBC Reith Lectures were inspired by President Franklin D Roosevelt's four freedoms speech of 1941. Author, musician and social commentator Darren (“Loki”) McGarvey gave the third of four lectures addressing 'Freedom from Want’. We listened to it again this week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0520cd6a-87c0-4f25-8fe1-472f09b2e6e0/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - Kindness Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d4c7ad30-c715-4e42-ac65-9b667023cbc3/5.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - A World of Good Relationships Relationships, David Robinson argues, are the foundation on which all else is built - including effective education, just policing, stable childhoods, thriving communities, flourishing businesses - even longer lives… Robinson's recent lecture at the London School of Economics gives a taster of his work with The Relationships Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4d41b747-2443-4069-aad4-a198122b9947/gabriel-jimenez-jin4W1HqgL4-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 38 - Mapping: Food Unaffordability Across the World The World Health Organization found that the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine pushed 122 million more people into food insecurity between 2019 and 2022. Higher food prices, combined with increasing poverty, have resulted in rising food unaffordability, especially in certain regions of the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/cac6aadb-9cb4-46a6-829f-f9facff1f657/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - The Culture Map Erin Meyer’s book has been the talk of the Greenwood Place office over the past week. Communicating across cultures is central to our work as donors, and we love the way that Meyer draws out the misunderstandings that can arise from clashing cultural assumptions. It’s a fun read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/f8441df3-ca61-40b7-88d2-ee15be7358d6/7.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - Delivering Hope Imagine a world where innovations could save the lives of 2 million more mothers and babies. When a mother dies during childbirth, the future dies with her. The Gates Foundation's 2023 Goalkeepers Report explores how many additional lives might be saved if available innovations were to be used widely in low and middle income countries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/46ddc735-42b2-4fc8-8ffc-dfdde42bfb04/8.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - Early Relational Health Positive early relationships are the keys to lifelong health and well-being and essential to protecting children and families from adversity. Our friends at the Burke Foundation commissioned this report from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education outlining the critical importance of family-friendly policies and practices in building thriving families and, ultimately, thriving communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ba2bd3fd-6d01-4625-a8c8-79e51dc82dfe/9.jpeg News - Briefing No. 38 - Old World Young Africa This New York Times interactive article gives an upbeat and visual run through some of the points made in Susan Harper’s book. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy-gwhsm monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/cf3c1efc-4d2c-4ecf-96d0-71c4319bb233/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place Bedside Table There is no such thing as ‘away’. We have long been blithely throwing out our waste – tossing it over our shoulders and moving on to the next shiny new thing, with little thought to what happens to the discarded item. It might be burned, buried, reconstituted or sent on an expedition to new lands. One person’s ‘away’ is another’s ‘here’. Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland is a fascinating and enraging read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0cd0f186-2651-435a-93b9-01daf9389619/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - Sal Khan & Bill Gates in Conversation Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently sat down with Bill Gates to discuss how AI will transform education and what Khan Academy is doing right now to harness its power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2a0f6124-e2b3-492f-ae82-038db2499925/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - Acceptance “Sometimes you need a little help to ... see the light or even be reminded of what kind of life you could have, you know, reminded of what kind of person you could be ...” Joshua, LandWorks. Acceptance, a new book from Greenwood Place partner charity LandWorks, throws a much-needed light on the complex lives of offenders, the challenges of rehabilitation, and potential for change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0556a40f-956c-491f-9629-2e2dd72cf7d9/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - Poverty and Policy During the 20 years following Deng Xiaoping's introduction of agricultural reform in 1978, China’s GDP more than quadrupled and, according to official statistics, the number of people in poverty was reduced by over 200 million. Podcast "The Rest is History", reflects on Deng Xiaoping’s leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0a3ee11f-4408-4829-99bd-91c808f7f451/5.png News - Briefing No. 37 - Beauty In our work at Greenwood Place, we are frequently reminded that beauty appeals to the senses and nourishes the soul - reducing anxiety and inflammation, increasing a sense of hope. The Google Ngram Viewer displays user-selected words or phrases in a graph that shows how those phrases have occurred in books over time. We were fascinated to see that "beauty" has been trending upwards since 1980. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4d911963-dc84-48aa-9032-50dac33939e5/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - Working to Restore Rooted in optimism, journalist Esha Chhabra’s book examines businesses in agriculture, waste, supply chains, travel, health, energy, and finance and tells stories of the entrepreneurs who are trying to restore civility, integrity and transparency to business - moving beyond “sustainability” into an era of regeneration and restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6537a53f-45ae-437c-a271-382fa0ba4acd/7.jpeg News - Briefing No. 37 - Conservation & Local-Global Partnerships “The local organization is pivotal. It is there forever. It is not like the international organisation that has a limited period of time.” Dominic Ngwesse, Nature Cameroon. Maliasili exists to help talented African conservation organisations overcome challenges and constraints so that they can become more effective agents of change. Rooting for Change is their new report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bd5352ca-1f4f-430e-962d-46c2e4eeeccf/johannes-plenio-Enhs8UrXEb0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 37 - Upcoming Events Philanthropy Insight’s London Philanthropy Summit is on 14th-15th November 2023. We’re very happy to be partnering with the Pi team - Sonal and Louisa will both be leading sessions. Speakers include Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics as well as Greenwood Place community members Jacqueline Novogratz and Per Heggenes. Find out more about the programme and register for tickets via this link. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz-tj4zy monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e5a706fd-7aa7-4337-ac9a-0eac8a5e02d1/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - What we’re reading Our Holiday Reading List Every Summer, Greenwood Place closes its doors for two weeks of dedicated reading and strategic thinking. We dive deep into the issues that we are working on with our clients as well as those facing society more broadly. If you’d like to see our collective reading list to get inspiration for your own holiday reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/241a24b3-e6ae-4f04-8080-ad7e258bba50/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - Greenwood Place’s Annual Review Each year, we carry out a survey of our clients and our grantee partners and we publish the results. These results, together with stories from a few of our grantee partners, form the heart of our annual review. We hope you enjoy it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/5e0d5742-2427-4a34-a05c-b66ab0882dbf/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - An Economy of Abundance Dana Bezerra from Greater Share recommended this article to us. What would it take for us to move to a model of abundance and reciprocity? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0dd69e58-ff98-49ff-93d7-c8ceb2647287/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - The World’s Indigenous Peoples: Map Indigenous Peoples make up one third of the world’s poor, their territories overlap with all the significant biodiverse regions of the world and they have long been at the front line of resistance against deforestation. They operate at the front line of climate protection and biodiversity preservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6b44b67e-cba0-4a2d-8fc2-8398219ef7d4/5.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - The Rungs Youth, risk, and vulnerability are often balled up together in a way that sees young people as the problem (or the solution) - rather than as participants in a society with many problems. Young people are vulnerable not just because they are young. Perhaps more fundamentally, they are vulnerable because they are people who live in an unequal world where the social values and institutions that permit opportunities and possibilities of all kinds are not available to everyone. Benjamin Gucciardi’s poem brought these issues - which we often work on at Greenwood Place - alive for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d9edf807-9224-4ea4-8f68-7ed256b7673a/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - Funding Small Organisations “If funders want ‘less talk and more walk’ in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organisations.” We enjoyed Lior Ipp’s recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2eaf6b46-1a53-4510-bd87-8beea936d14f/7.jpeg News - Briefing No. 36 - How To Explore A European Paradise Here's a glimpse of the incredible, diverse nature that still exists in pockets of Europe, and the work that needs to be done to protect it. A team of 70 scientists from 17 countries, accompanied by journalists, photographers, activists, and artists, came together to explore, document and contribute to the conservation of the Neretva River system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7202d5bd-fd5a-43d0-9228-2cb548607d44/elizabeth-gottwald-bUxkeAZiZ3I-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 36 - Things You Need To Know James May uses bizarre analogies and whimsical imagery to explore everyday questions in these little animated films. Do you know how many fully-laden double-decker buses it takes to outweigh a single commercial aeroplane? Or why ice cream makes your head hurt? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bd5352ca-1f4f-430e-962d-46c2e4eeeccf/johannes-plenio-Enhs8UrXEb0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 36 - Upcoming Events The next Greenwood Place roundtable is on 20th September. We’ll be joined by Nicole Rycroft, Bren Smith and Silvia Gomez Echeverri to talk innovative approaches to conservation. Do let us know if you’d like to join us. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m-kk69r-e2j7p monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/aa83e092-2560-440d-a605-ae9f02acc091/WhatsApp+Image+2023-07-19+at+16.09.20.jpg News - Greenwood Place Summer Reading 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m-kk69r monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bd001221-e1d8-42cc-b80e-d2020df1fdc4/click-and-learn-photography-3VBg9zmZUOY-unsplash.jpg News - The Greenwood Place Annual Report 2022-2023 https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-7emnz monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/57e0b213-9cf7-4202-a537-027bf9c9e493/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table When northern Kenyans find elephant bones, they lay down blossoms and branches as a mark of respect. In our changing world, these values are vitally important. For decades, northern Kenya was one step away from war. Wildlife was decimated. Yet, facing the most extreme challenges, people united. The Greenwood Place community visited the Northern Rangeland Trust in 2018 and saw proof that human dedication to the cause of conservation, and to one another, can make a difference. Sonal took Peter Martell’s book Flowers for Elephants with her to visit family this month in Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/43feab08-2383-4fc8-94e6-2047ab76b198/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - The Good Life "The Good Life" is making its way around the Greenwood Place team. Based on findings from the 80-year-long Harvard Study of Adult Development, this landmark book draws out the longest and richest study of human lives anywhere to ask what makes for a fulfilling and meaningful life? A good life? . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/56bb9acb-c194-4836-a0e6-0fa2a1b154fd/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - Canopy Our partner Canopy received a $60 million investment over six years through The Audacious Project this month to transform the world's paper, packaging and viscose supply chains. We lose over five billion trees a year to paper, packaging and viscose textiles. Canopy is poised to catalyse a dramatic scale-up of Next Gen pulp production capacity and purchasing, preventing the logging of Ancient and Endangered forests. By turning food waste, agricultural residues, and textile waste into Next Gen fibres that can be used for packaging and clothing, Canopy’s work will protect the planet's most critical forest ecosystems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/250fa359-c5ec-432d-b26c-62e5176d0e0a/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - Five Seasons “For me, garden design isn’t just about plants, it is about emotion, atmosphere, a sense of contemplation. You try to move people with what you do. You look at this, and it goes deeper than what you see. It reminds you of something in the genes - nature, or the longing for nature.” Piet Oudolf, landscape designer. Nick Bent, CEO of Upreach, recommended this documentary to us. He told us that it was absolutely entrancing. We agree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/65febfca-17f2-4122-9c82-e18bad7772a6/5.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - To Be A Healer For years, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been naming and investigating loneliness as a public health issue. When people struggle with loneliness, not only is it bad for their mental health, increasing their risk of depression and anxiety, but it also increases their risk for heart disease and premature death. Murthy discusses here how we can reclaim lives that are full of joy and connection to one another and why it is so urgent that we do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a3ad7210-661f-46cd-80d3-826686b2fc9f/elizabeth-gottwald-bUxkeAZiZ3I-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 35 - Matar Directed by Bafta-winner Hassan Akkad and starring Ahmed Malek (The Swimmers), Matar is a powerful exposé of the UK's asylum system and the hardships and discrimination faced by those trying to rebuild their lives in England, told through the story of one man and his experiences working as a delivery driver in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/53d2fd95-db92-4874-a7b0-a86273a20768/7.jpeg News - Briefing No. 35 - Drawdown Lift Work to address climate change often overlooks the well-being of people experiencing extreme poverty - those who are often most vulnerable to a changing climate. This new report lists out readily available and financially viable climate solutions that increase income and improve food security for the most vulnerable https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/601572d2-b9b3-4198-a7ad-5221aee08876/guillaume-briard-lSXpV8bDeMA-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 35 - A Space Elevator Take a trip to space and explore the atmosphere in the world's only space elevator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/8d6c7883-ca42-4479-ba45-e5656e07d3d4/diana-parkhouse-SFFGI4B0Gqo-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 35 - And Finally… Spring has finally, truly arrived. Few have matched Chaucer’s lyrical praise for the finest month in Troilus and Criseyde: In May, that moder is of monthes glade, That fresshe floures, blewe, and whyte, and rede, Ben quike agayn, that winter dede made, And ful of bawme is fleting every mede. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-ydky5-kg6yr monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/915913a4-e2f6-4de7-bcf9-17732b0d5467/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Greenwood Place in Colombia A few weeks ago, a group of twenty Greenwood Place community members came together to travel and meet with social innovators and change-makers from across Colombia. Over a period of five days, we took time to consider together how we could approach a time which feels uncertain and unsettling in so many ways and to dig into the issues we are facing with optimism and energy. We put together this special edition briefing to share a little of what we learned. “I learned so much - from the visits of course, but also the group itself and not just the questions but the interactions, connections and general energetic field. Lots of thinking, lots of new sparks and ideas still coming, and adjustments to make.” “I know I will be feeling the ripples of this trip for many weeks and months to come.” Participant, Greenwood Place Learning Journey 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2c6338e0-8aa0-49eb-8d49-94f0ad7a8262/PHOTO-2023-01-26-01-57-00.jpg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Our Plane Reading The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker has been a constant source of referral for the Greenwood Place team over the past few years, and never more than in the run up to the Learning Journey. We’ve recommended it before but it bears repeating - it is a true boon for anyone looking to create gatherings with intention. We have sticky notes and underlinings all over the Greenwood Place office copy. Most of us were also carrying copies of Wade Davis’s Magdalena: River of Dreams - a geography book about Colombia’s great arterial river that unpacks both the political history and the ecology of Colombia, and celebrates the beauty and complexity of the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7fca7e4e-4ed5-457b-afd0-f254cff8b660/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Turning the Problem into the Solution The backdrop to Bogotá is the Cerros Orientales, the Colombian Andes. We climbed up there early one morning with social enterprise LiveHappy. The mountain landscape - the Páramo - is both beautiful and dangerous. Most Bogotáns fear the people who live in the remote hillside communities and do not venture there. LiveHappy was built by trail runners who began hiring and training young people from remote mountain communities to provide security for walkers and to care for the trails - working with the communities to plough their profit into the things that young people and their families say they need most. Co-Founder Rafael Torres told us, “We figured, why not turn the problem into the solution.” There have been zero robberies in the area since LiveHappy started work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c5c439b5-2fbd-4003-bb7d-45bce14cfdd3/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Building Peace Coschool was founded on the belief that peace-building needs to start in the classroom. Fifty years of civil war have left a lasting negative effect on families and children across the country. Coschool responds to societal fractures by bringing socio-emotional learning into schools - working to build trust, improve relationships, increase confidence and enhance problem-solving techniques. Dilan, Coschool graduate and trainee teacher, left us with the thought that “Education is, after all, an act of love.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0378e6eb-559f-48b6-a015-92dcd05b820f/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Building Community Patricia (name changed) used to be a journalist. She trained as a child-minder with early years education specialists AeioTu not long after she arrived in Bogotá as a refugee from Venezuela. She lives in a small apartment in Soacha - an area of the city that, she told us, has the same problems as the rest of the city but 10x fewer resources - and has filled it with engaging toys and learning aids for the pre-schoolers she cares for. She’s determined to be part of creating a stable and peaceful future. She told us that the work she does now is a direct contribution to building a better future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/fa402d8c-879e-46b0-8401-ca3579305124/5.png News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Relationship Gaia Amazonas is committed to the protection of biological and cultural diversity, and the future of the Amazon rainforest. Since 1990, they have worked hand in hand with Indigenous communities of the Northwest Amazon for the recognition of their rights, territories, and local governance systems, as the most viable and dignified strategy for forest conservation. Gaia Amazonas’ work - which leads to a 3-5x reduction in annual deforestation rates - recognises and relies on a deep interdependence of people and nature. Founder Martin von Hildebrand told us: “What is important is not the part but the relationship between the parts. If we focus on the individual we become chaos. Everything is about the community.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d39b98f9-9114-404c-b9e9-b5b06dd333eb/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Respect at the Bases of Partnership We travelled with Carlos Ignacio Velasco of Cacao Hunters to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the far north of Colombia to meet Carlos’s partners from the Indigenous Arhuaco community. Together Cacao Hunters and the Arhuacos have built a business that creates some of the best chocolate in the world. We wanted to understand the deep, mutually respectful, partnership that they have built in an isolated region of Colombia that suffered deeply during fifty years of civil war. Community Leader Hernan told us that the basis of the partnership was respect: “Cacao Hunters were the first to come, and they listened. They respect nature. We share many things.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/14451fcd-405d-4384-b3f1-53df99e6c274/7.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Pause El Colegio del Cuerpo – the School of the Body – is a community built in, and directly in response to, challenging times. Born in 1997 as an artistic, social and educational response to bodily mistreatments in Colombia – violence, kidnappings, displacement, torture and murder – El Colegio merges dance and social justice. A contemporary dance school at its core, it provides a safe and engaging environment for its students, the majority of whom come from extremely challenging social backgrounds, to pause, to heal and to learn both self-respect and respect for others. Founder Alvaro Restrepo spoke to us of the importance of “the pause… the silence between the notes”. As a dancer, he explained, you prepare, then pause, and then move. Viktor Frankl phrased it: “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6a26fbf4-94a7-4dc0-8a63-dbabf2e7ebda/8.jpeg News - Briefing No. 34 - Colombia Special - Celebrate We ended our week at Hay Festival Cartagena with our community members Andrew Bastawrous of Peek Vision, Louisa Mitchell of West London Zone and Maria Adelaida Lopez of AeioTU sharing their stories on stage. The standing ovation that ended that session was a moment of celebration for all of us. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2023/2/22/greenwood-place-is-hiring monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7afd7bf6-e1f6-4b38-ab3c-73e3547a3e5c/lukasz-szmigiel-jFCViYFYcus-unsplash.jpg News - Greenwood Place is hiring - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl-ydky5 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/883d05eb-0619-4fa3-b490-a1694958169f/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table "Despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is, and how degraded the world has become" says Nick Cave "it just keeps on being beautiful. It can't help it." Faith, Hope and Carnage draws together several long conversations between Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan. As a regular reader of Cave's Red Hand Files, Rebecca had been looking forward to this new book and it has not disappointed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/dc7c077f-6446-4996-8498-4e027341aec1/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - OpenAI We've been playing (slightly obsessively) in the OpenAI Playground this month. Founded philanthropically, OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Imagine if the best AI models were open and free. What would you do with them? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/9d1aaf4d-5c53-4629-8719-4473b97fa9d8/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - The Earthshot Prize The Earthshot Prize was designed to find and grow solutions that will repair and regenerate our planet in this decade. We are thrilled to announce that for the second year running, a Greenwood Place partner has won! Huge congratulations to Kheyti, creators of affordable, modular greenhouse kits that help smallholder farmers increase yield and predictability of produce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/84c12fcc-2fd8-465e-9d53-53d6f39449c3/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - Standing At The Edge Joan Halifax draws on a lifetime of experience in Standing At The Edge. In her wise and generous writing, Halifax explores the gift and the peril of empathy - how to encounter suffering with compassion while staying clear about the distinction between the self and other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/062db1ae-0547-48d6-ad6b-79383b750865/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - Eight Medical Breakthroughs The Royal Society of Medicine's animation chronicles some of the remarkable innovations and breakthroughs in medicine that happened during the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2d4fc830-d178-41f3-b18b-f221c017ed26/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - The Dignity Report The enterprise of development, and work on social problems more generally, has too often failed to fully appreciate, and fully uphold, the dignity of each and every person. We found ourselves nodding a great deal as we read through the Dignity Report's findings and recommendations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c2989cc1-c4a1-48d2-b178-dc94d87c5f49/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 33 - The Christmas Edition - The Little Prince "What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince. We're planning to settle down for some wonder and joy this month with the animated film version of Saint-Exupéry's classic story. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6-j7zjl monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/3b06f5ee-c3da-45a0-b244-b191306f0edb/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 32 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table We loved The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Mueller. Mueller discusses the limits of metrics and the potentially distorting effects of the pressure for measurable results. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e42ee063-b06c-40bd-8fec-1505c9052fae/unnamed.png News - Briefing No. 32 - Ways of Being We are very excited about the next book in our stack, Ways of Being by James Bridle. What does it mean to be intelligent? Bridle asks whether plants, animals and machines are intelligent and, if so, how do we recognise this intelligence and what does it mean for us. A taste of the argument in this podcast discussion between Bridle and Brian Eno (and thank you to our lovely Somerset House neighbours, literary agents Greene & Heaton, for the recommendation). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ee241088-9c14-4266-a2c7-ea9793543bc1/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 32 - How Enlightenment Happens This fascinating conversation between Chris Anderson and Steven Johnson covers where ideas come from, how optimism benefits creative ideation, the complex and even controversial process of discovery, and the beauty of the “adjacent possible.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6b1e253a-eddc-438a-a4d7-6afda0d50ea8/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 32 - The Ark of Taste Our diets are more homogenous than at any other point in human history. The Ark of Taste, managed by Italy’s Slow Food Movement, documents foods that we might lose, so that we notice and preserve them while we still can. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bc78891e-3642-4a34-aee5-cb3c02b94c5f/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 32 - Is AI the Biggest Event in Human History Professor Stuart Russell reflects on AI’s history, its impact on our lives and how - if at all - we can retain power over machines more powerful than ourselves. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd-dkyn6 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4542d70d-65e6-4db9-9e32-941d9164808a/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - Greenwood Place Annual Report 2021/22 Each year we ask our clients and our grantee partners how we’re doing. These survey results, together with case studies of our partners' work, form the heart of our Annual Report. This year’s report is a particularly special one because it marks our fifth anniversary as a business. We could not be more proud of what our community has achieved over these five years, or more grateful to walk alongside each of them in their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/fadcd384-028b-4bcc-8ea5-09e5da560529/elizabeth-gottwald-bUxkeAZiZ3I-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of By the Sea, Paradise and Afterlives. Gurnah was born in Zanzibar but has lived in the UK for the last five decades, having fled the turmoil that followed the 1964 revolution as a teenager. He won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Lucy and Rebecca took some of his books on a recent journey to visit grantee partners in Tanzania and loved them. We recommend By the Sea and Paradise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/42d89dc6-fa4a-4871-b015-7a5f7527e572/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - 13 Minutes to the Moon We’re listening to Dr Kevin Fong’s enthralling and award-winning podcast series 13 Minutes to the Moon on the BBC World Service. A decade-long mission culminated in the final nerve wracking 13 minutes it took the Moon lander to arrive safely on the surface. It’s a positive and timely reminder of humanity's great track record in achieving seemingly impossible engineering breakthroughs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/bbc42c25-1ecc-42ad-a13a-64931da6ebd3/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - Africa’s Great Carbon Valley - And How to End Energy Poverty James Irungu Mwangi is the executive director of the Dalberg Group, the founder of the Climate Action Platform for Africa, and a member of Greenwood Place’s advisory board. James’s recent TED Talk explores how Africa’s wealth of land and resources as well as its young and growing workforce make it the ideal home for scaling the latest and most ambitious climate technologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b85b909e-fa35-4653-b972-9c94f09e9e4f/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - The Most Critical Ingredient in Leadership What, above all else, drives leaders to direct or redirect their lives, to tackle seemingly intractable problems, and to stay true to their values in the face of enormous challenges? Jacqueline Novogratz and Anne Welsh McNulty explore the most critical ingredient in leadership in this article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/9d898b65-333f-4ee5-bd88-1cd0e3e95556/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - I earn £10.71 an hour. Here’s what the cost of living crisis has been like In every conversation we have with our grantee partners across the world, we’ve been asking about the cost of living and whether and how price increases are affecting their work. The author of this article provides a clear and sharp perspective on what is happening in the UK. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c43f9a37-9279-4255-a3cf-dc6731ed8ef3/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - Mapping the Coral Reefs of the Soil A network of mycelium runs through all the world’s dirt, helping plants grow and sequestering carbon. A massive citizen science project is underway to map, visualise and eventually help preserve the fungal networks that underpin life on Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/597b9151-030d-4401-85e2-aba2b04e8133/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 31 - A New Strategy for Women’s Health The UK’s National Health Service has vowed to tackle decades of systemic and entrenched gender health inequality, opening its newly released report with the words “historically, the health and care system has been designed by men, for men.” The report sets out a comprehensive strategy to improve health and wellbeing for women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/429183ba-cfbc-4fe2-b996-abe80ea42dd1/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 31 - How to End Coal Ending the world’s reliance on coal is not a “one size fits all”. Global strategies need to be adapted to national and regional realities. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf-y873m monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4501847a-0109-4445-936f-79ebcb57d999/patrick-hinz-mtZ_nK35Kmo-unsplash.jpg News - The Greenwood Place Annual Report 2021-2022 https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539-e34pd monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/215f9cc2-be6c-47c7-b41a-1f4e5b06a5c7/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 30 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table Citizens - Something is happening. A different story is rising and ripening. It is a story of widely distributed power. A story of who we are as humans, what we are capable of, and how we might together reimagine and rebuild our world. Jon Alexander’s Citizens is about rethinking the stories that we listen to and that we live, and about identifying the domains where we have some influence, and working to make things better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/34ac8632-5ff8-403c-8c79-21763f181e1a/guillaume-briard-lSXpV8bDeMA-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 30 - DEMOCRACY INDEX 2021 Democratisation suffered more reversals in 2021, with the percentage of people living in a democracy falling to well below 50% and authoritarian regimes gaining ground. This year’s Democracy Index report, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, finds that democracy experienced its biggest annual decline since 2010, when the global financial crash led to major setbacks. The index score fell for all but one region, with pandemic-related restrictions continuing to constrain individual freedoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2d685722-a388-427e-9cf4-ea254e6f768c/henry-perks-aOTBPSDjgj0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 30 - EDUCATION AFTER DISASTER Interrupting schooling has deep and long-lasting effects on children suggests a study from Oxford, which is based on research into the 2005 Pakistan earthquake. The findings have significant relevance for other disasters, including recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you to Laura Savage of the International Education Funders Group for sharing this with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2f1480a0-7057-4ed7-9065-5f7207da7f65/kazuend-19SC2oaVZW0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 30 - LEAVING CARE WELL A landmark review of the UK’s care system was published last week. We are still digesting the 250 page report here in the office but we thought we’d share with you this two minute animation produced by young care leavers who form part of the ground-breaking National House Project, a member of the Greenwood Place community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c48cb631-c374-4beb-a9f0-9fe4fe1a2685/johannes-plenio-Enhs8UrXEb0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 30 - WHAT THE GREEN GROUPS SAID Lynn has just returned from the Environmental Funders Network retreat with a wealth of information and ideas to share with the rest of the Greenwood Place team. She is currently reading through EFN’s recent report summarising what is happening across the environmental sector, how its leaders believe they can become more effective and what funders can do to facilitate that success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/c01367be-008c-4ff3-a975-ce82bdc689e3/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 30 - THE MIDNIGHT SUN The days are getting longer and lighter by the day here in the UK. As we look forward to Summer, we enjoyed this 360deg time lapse video which follows the never-setting sun in a 24 hour trip around the sky above the Arctic Circle. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/2/17/back-issue-book-recommendations monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613561054563-A9BPKSYDIG86L795DEID/WhatsApp+Image+2021-02-15+at+12.03.39.jpeg News - Back Issue Book Recommendations We put together a list of all the books we’ve recommended in the Greenwood Place briefing over the years. Our back issue recommendations make an increasingly tall pile and all are worth revisiting. You can easily go back and browse those you missed over the years. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w-by539 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/9570e4a3-c99f-4eed-ab31-c1ab64ea55db/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table The Quiet Before - In these strange and difficult times, we are finding Gal Beckerman’s new book helpful. He looks at how ideas are debated, transmitted and become defining, how every idea and discovery that changes the world is marked by long periods of abject failure and how what really creates transformative change - for good and for bad - is often not obvious at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4ef44c47-52d6-4c18-812c-dccb4c697745/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - MAPPED: 200 YEARS OF POLITICAL REGIMES BY COUNTRY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/ab7f9a6d-0bfd-427b-b661-2ee9eb6af4df/unnamed+%282%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - HISTORIC STEP TOWARDS ENDING PLASTIC POLLUTION Meeting in Nairobi at the UN Environment Assembly this month, 175 nations have agreed a historic resolution to end plastic pollution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/0b759397-7af6-43c5-a801-6f32e497f7ba/unnamed+%283%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - INVISIBLE CHILD We're reading Invisible Child by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Andrea Elliott. It’s a forensic look at poverty in the US. Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child born into poverty in Brooklyn, New York. Highly recommended. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/87b7663c-8baf-47f9-baae-c3110febb81b/veeterzy-sMQiL_2v4vs-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - DIGNITY Properly incorporating ideas of dignity and respect, as Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee have written, sets off “a profound rethinking of economic priorities”. What might a dignity framework for respectful development look like? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/cfdf6a37-031a-46fc-b61a-9c38b833d1bc/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - CAN DEMOCRACY RISE TO THE OCCASION The conventional wisdom these days is that autocracy is ascendent, democracy on the decline. Ken Roth argues that the alleged, widespread rise of the autocrats is more qualified than often assumed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/5cfcb209-9543-4963-ad9c-929b5528eb0c/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 29 - SOMETHING JOYFUL Forty animators from around the world collaborated on this lovely two-minute video called Pass the Ball. Each person had three seconds to animate a ball and “pass” it to the next person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/aabc9ca1-e263-4744-826b-7eb20c53db28/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 29 - AND FINALLY… https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t-25p3w monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a9aeb4bb-22eb-4972-ba91-67ebe1e4d9e0/unnamed.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table Only 6-8% of the world’s fungi have so far even been identified. Mycorrhizal relationships matter because 90% of plants, the basis of everything that sustains us, depend on them. If you teased apart the mycelium found in a gram of soil and laid it end to end, it could stretch anywhere from 100 metres to 10 kilometres. Merlin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life” is a mind-blowing read for the holidays and a timely reminder that the world is richer, stranger and more wonderful than we know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/dddbb0dd-7f2e-4ec0-9bc0-4c0af413915e/unnamed+%281%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - GRATITUDE We cannot be grateful for everything. However, says David Steindl-Rast, although it is clearly not possible to be grateful for everything, we can be grateful in every moment. Steindl-Rast calls joy “the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” His idea of gratitude is one we plan to reflect on as 2021 draws to a close. It is not an easy one. It is a choice to stop, look at the present moment and - for a split second - understand the opportunity of this moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b08f965f-ba1f-4292-84ce-6a2ba80e7c82/kazuend-19SC2oaVZW0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - SEEING CLEARLY “I was ready for the world but I don’t think the world was ready for me.” Sixto “Sugar Man” Rodriguez. Mysterious “street poet” of Detroit recorded two albums in 1970 and 1971, and then disappeared. His music remained relatively unheard and unknown, except in South Africa where Rodriguez became a legend. This Academy Award-winning documentary is an uplifting holiday watch, it takes viewers on a surprising journey and reminds us all that, sometimes, the greatest heroes are the people living right next door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/9f37c0e2-9ffd-461f-9501-f6821c11a596/chris-lejarazu-08wxrVv5rp8-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHER Justice, the course Michael Sandel devised at Harvard, is one of the most popular in the university’s history – thousands of students apply to attend in person and tens of millions watch his classes online. Thank you to our community member Stephanie Brobbey for pointing us towards the soundtrack to Sandel’s life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a1eaa534-c734-458b-bff1-111c3447657c/elizabeth-gottwald-bUxkeAZiZ3I-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - CARBON EMISSIONS PER CAPITA BY COUNTRY Measuring total carbon emissions doesn't always paint the most accurate picture of a country's contribution, if their populations isn't considered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/b4589c76-19b0-493c-a512-ce47ac858e16/unnamed+%284%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - THE EARTHSHOT PRIZE The Earthshot Prize is the most ambitious and prestigious of its kind – designed to incentivise change and help to repair our planet over the next ten years. We were thrilled when Greenwood Place community members Coral Vita were announced as amongst the first five global winners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/de33ff71-c482-4d5a-85fd-00e8115385f9/unnamed+%285%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - TALKING WITH WHALES An interdisciplinary group of scientists are hoping to use artificial intelligence to decode whale conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/d9f26df1-437d-4c76-92f9-4bdcc1f9166f/unnamed+%286%29.jpg News - Briefing No. 28 - Christmas Edition - MY BRILLIANT IMAGE I wish I could show you When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own Being! Lines from a poem by 14th century Persian Sufi writer, Hafiz of Shiraz https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke-klb2t monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/226dbc79-8536-4ab7-ae65-6c9971f04381/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special A few weeks ago, a group of Greenwood Place community members came together to travel and meet with some of our UK-based partner organisations and social innovators. Over a period of 3 days, we spent time with leaders from across the UK, and took time to consider together how we could approach this time which feels uncertain and unsettling in so many ways and to dig into the issues we are facing with optimism and energy. We put together this special edition briefing to share a little of what we learned. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/395c7e93-6e5f-493d-bb31-c3d4d127fd72/91JzfoD4KHL.jpg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table ‘The Art of Gathering’ by Priya Parker was a constant source of referral in the run up to the Learning Journey. We recommend it to absolutely anyone looking to create gatherings with intention. The Greenwood Place team have sticky notes and underlinings all over their copy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6c0e33fd-ba51-4142-8d13-96c9456a3c87/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - FAMILY John (name changed) is a 19-year-old apprentice at Jamie’s Farm, an organisation that provides a mixture of intense therapy and hard work outdoors on a farm to young people on the verge of dropping out. He’d grown up in the care system - regularly moving from place to place throughout his childhood. The family atmosphere at Jamie’s Farm had, he told us, “softened his pain and helped him to heal.” People talked to us often about how care, kindness, mentorship and security had allowed them to learn resilience and respect and to thrive independently - and how swiftly things go wrong when family life is detrimental to growth and wellbeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/5c06a6fe-d881-4ef4-a890-0ee0aefbf343/11174312_10153218081821183_8109824084597579657_o.jpg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - SEEING CLEARLY “These young people are AMAZING - if you think what they achieve every single day - finding free wifi, a shelter for the night, somewhere to wash themselves and their clothes, often holding down college or a job… if we could solve those problems and channel that energy just think what they could achieve....” Our hosts at New Horizon Youth Centre, a day centre providing practical help to homeless young people, reminded us of the critical importance of seeing people clearly as individuals - understanding their strengths rather than viewing them as part of a complex problem that needs to be solved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a2707495-3649-43be-8d45-1ff0d9e68200/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - THE TENSION BETWEEN DEPTH AND SCALE A host at St Giles Trust told us a story of how she was trying to help a troubled young person get in to work. He said to her…“The jump you are asking me to make is like me convincing you to become a drug dealer.” Numbers, metrics, data - these really matter. But it’s all too easy to prize scale over depth and we heard several times about the hard choices that “going deep” means in terms of resourcing for change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2aeaaea6-bb5f-4e19-8c39-cadb51e27b30/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - LISTENING Ulla, a Link Worker at West London Zone, spends her time working to ensure that vulnerable children and families in her neighbourhood have the support that they need to thrive. She told us that she learns through her work every day that “Listening Is Doing.” The "success" of any intervention, programme or project should be defined by metrics informed directly by listening to the individual’s needs and agreeing goals that work for them, not for us. Too often we bring our own preconceived ideas about what matters and what will work to our relationships with those we seek to help. The Learning Journey had listening at its heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/7d891665-cae6-42ae-96da-a358c32724a9/5.jpg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE Emma at Body & Soul said to us: “It’s how you build your team that enables the work.” We saw the critical importance of organisational culture time and time again throughout the week. High-performing organisations dealing with extremely tough issues welcomed us with warmth and laughter. Sabir (not his real name), a young man from Afghanistan who had experienced extreme trauma on his journey to the UK as a teenager, said that what helped him to begin to heal, when he got to know the team at The Baobab Centre, was the simple fact of “having someone on my side”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4ecbbcb3-ce3e-439e-8a4a-40d6e5f0fa17/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 27 - UK Special - PROXIMITY We need to make space at the table for those closest to the problem, for the voices of lived experience, and to recognise that healing is not instant. Naaz (again, not her real name), told us how she was imprisoned for 14 years at the age of 17. She was employed by St Giles Trust while she was still in prison and works to keep other young people from getting involved in gangs. She visits schools, telling her story and acting as a friend and ally for young people at risk. She said to us: “I call the young people I work with every week. I call them so they always know that they have someone to rely on.” https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25-b74ke monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1630619839225-GP4ACY6S0KS9LRY2WJR1/unsplash-image-0no7XyJH7GA.jpg News - Briefing No. 26 - THE GREENWOOD PLACE ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021 Each year, we carry out a survey of our clients and our grantee partners and we publish the results. These survey results, together with case studies of our partners' work, form the heart of our Annual Report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1630407375546-TLOZ9UZJ05MGSLDYD1M9/braidingsweetgrass_pb_coverfb.jpg News - Briefing No. 26 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer is an extraordinary book, bringing together the objectivity and rigour of science and the ancient wisdom of indigenous people. Her love for the complexity and interconnections of the natural world shines through on every page - as Wall Kimmerer says, “Alone is a word without meaning in the forest.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/fde1f1f5-a619-4c25-a995-f244bdde1fb7/kazuend-19SC2oaVZW0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 26 - PROXIMITY After 15 months of isolation, we have been thinking a great deal about the central importance of relationship to good philanthropy. We were drawn back to Bryan Stevenson’s 2020 interview on the On Being podcast. Stevenson believes that. ‘We cannot make progress in creating a more just society, healthier communities, if we allow ourselves to be disconnected from the people who are most vulnerable: from the poor, the neglected, the incarcerated, the condemned. If you’re trying to make policies in the criminal justice space but have never met someone who’s in a jail or prison, you haven’t been to a jail or prison, you’re going to fail.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/6be4d2e1-ff9a-4981-a00f-447d383bc976/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 26 - CLIMATE: A CLEAR-SIGHTED VIEW Earth has warmed 1.09℃ since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global surface temperature has warmed faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2,000 years. And CO2 levels are rising faster than ever. About 85 percent of CO2 emissions are from burning fossil fuels. The remaining 15 percent are generated from land-use change, such as deforestation and degradation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e8136e18-8895-4617-bdc2-00e3e179fe27/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 26 - WE TRIED TO BE JOYFUL ENOUGH As a child, Zarlasht Halaimzai, founder of the Refugee Trauma Initiative, fled Afghanistan with her family. When the family arrived in Britain, they thought they could begin a new life in safety, But the reality was very different. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/25474d76-a6f1-4166-aad0-b0b84a726e3e/johannes-plenio-Enhs8UrXEb0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 26 - LITTLE AMAL: A STORY OF A GIRL ON THE MOVE Throughout history the movement of people has fuelled human progress, enriched culture and accelerated the acquisition of knowledge. The Walk is a celebration of migration and cultural diversity that tells the story of the contributions made by refugees and immigrants. It represents the refugee story as one of potential, success, respect, hospitality and kindness. Little Amal is a 3.5m tall puppet, making her way across Europe from Syria to Manchester right now. Join her this month at public events in Greece and Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621330627323-AAL4K1ZFXCZ0GEZSONX7/jan-kahanek-g3O5ZtRk2E4-unsplash.jpeg News - Briefing No. 26 - Upcoming Events The Greenwood Place Community Learning Journey is in just a couple of weeks. We are excited to be spending time with many of our UK based community members - clients and grantees. If you’re joining us, thank you! If you would like to talk to us about leaning in to support those impacted by current crisis, how to deal with the longer term social and economic fall-out of global pandemic, or the opportunities it presents to protect and restore our shared environment, please call us. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here-yzpkf monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1630403947623-X524RK1BB3497AJLT0WX/pexels-pixabay-40731.jpg News - The Greenwood Place Annual Report 2020-2021 https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/5/18/briefing-no-25 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621329407095-YM5GL7HX488VBZFW0YRT/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - What we’re reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table 'The Ministry of the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson's plausible, chaotic, and hopeful novel about how the climate crisis could play out, is probably the most powerful and original book on climate change we’ve read. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us – and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. Thank you to the EarthPercent team for recommending it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/af3d5274-8fc2-45bb-a19d-5cf34bdcf227/elizabeth-gottwald-bUxkeAZiZ3I-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 25 - Boy on Fire “Find your authentic voice and push violently and defiantly against your limitations - and you never know, great things may happen. I hope they do.” Nick Cave on creativity, and the bloody-minded pursuit of vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621329573898-WZ9SB03AZKVRAWV2C4FS/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - Designing for Scale: Greenwood Place on Youtube Sonal and Rebecca were delighted to join with three members of the Greenwood Place’s community - Andrew Bastawrous, Pankaj Sharma and Sasha Fisher - for what turned out to be an inspirational discussion of the journey to outsize social impact. If you’re interested in Greenwood Place’s philosophy, our processes, or the partnerships we’ve built, this is a great introduction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621329644500-EOTFJCX4NOGU4GAJZ7OK/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - New Constellations For millennia, across cultures and continents, we have looked to the stars to navigate when we are lost. Celestial bodies have exerted a magnetic pull over our lives and imaginations. In this era of transformation, the New Constellations team argue, we are locked onto old stars that are pulling us in a perilous direction. We need to discover new stars, new possibilities, and reset our course. Their podcasts are beautifully edited dialogues with thinkers, artists and social change-makers. They’re unlike anything we’ve heard before. We love them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621329685634-PCGSPW8X63ALQHA7JOLI/5.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - Closing the Distance In April, many of the Greenwood Place community dialled into the Skoll Foundation’s second virtual Skoll World Forum, with the theme “Closing the Distance.” All the sessions can now be found online - but let us know if you’d like us to share our curated list of highlights. It’s also worth checking out the Skoll Foundation’s evolved strategy - the new route they are taking to transformational social change in this time of heightened urgency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621329789940-F60U2VYGQQW1L63E6ERE/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity, Flood Management: The many Benefits of Trees on Farms A near future of climatic changes is one reason Henry Andrews has added 5,000 trees to his 120-acre beef cattle farm. Improving the health of his animals is another motivation. “We’ve forgotten what our forebears used to do,” he says. “Silvopasture was a huge part of farming. We relied on hedgerows to provide shelter. They got ripped out for larger fields to try to be progressive but in hindsight it was regressive.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/a6e22a7f-3187-4fca-99a7-927cc7773fe4/guillaume-briard-lSXpV8bDeMA-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 25 - The World is a Mountain 'The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the mountain echoed an ugly voice!" That is not possible.’ - Rumi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1621330627323-AAL4K1ZFXCZ0GEZSONX7/jan-kahanek-g3O5ZtRk2E4-unsplash.jpeg News - Briefing No. 25 - Upcoming Events Our next Greenwood Place Roundtable is tomorrow, 18th May. Clean energy visionaries Amar Inamdar and Bill Nussey will join us to discuss what they are doing as leaders and investors, to bring about a green transition. Let us know if you’d like to join. Greta Cowan is joining us for a very special storytelling workshop on 8th June. And…We are planning the next Greenwood Place Community Trip, IRL, in the UK this September. We will be in touch with all our clients about this over the next few days - or do call us for details. AND FINALLY… If you would like to talk to us about how to help those working on the front-line of Covid in India right now, or how to deal with the longer term social and economic fall-out of this global pandemic, or the opportunities it presents to protect and restore our shared environment, please call us. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/3/30/briefing-no-24 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1617113301269-Z53ZVDQCHTH3TT8TKMAY/1.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - What we are reading On the Greenwood Place bedside table We’re reading Tomorrow’s Economy, in which Per Espen Stoknes reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth. Going beyond the zero sum pro-growth versus anti-growth debate, Stoknes calls for smart and inclusive value creation that benefits buyers, sellers and society. And we just finished George Soros’s In Defence of Open Society, an impassioned defence of inclusive society, academic and media freedom, and human rights. Soros talks about the influences on his early life that informed his “political philanthropy” and his battle against authoritarianism, racism and intolerance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/4530eca7-23f0-4ddd-9314-8131ceb2dd8c/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - Faces Places Photographer and muralist JR (age 33) and legendary filmmaker Agnès Varda (age 88) team up to make ordinary people extraordinary. They travel together around rural France listening to people’s stories, and creating extraordinary photographic mementos of those encounters. This beautiful film is a poignant reminder of the community that we need to rebuild when we finally emerge from this period of isolation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1617113557546-DWB3E70Y0DFRKKVGO4GA/3.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - The Geopolitical Fight To Come The world is cornered in a Janus-faced energy crisis: One generated by the speed with which it is necessary to replace fossil fuel energy to stop global temperatures rising, and one around oil, on which in three decades’ time, even if carbon neutrality is achieved, the world economy and everyday life will still depend. Moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/f7ab5916-5664-4fb2-967e-1bb331ec80ac/matt-hardy-6ArTTluciuA-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 24 - Sylvia Earle “The ocean is truly what keeps us alive. And we have to return the favour”. Dive deep into the fascinating, horrifying, hopeful story of the ocean in conversation with world-renowned marine biologist Sylvia Earle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1617113747874-VHVQBMENMZJ8SRT4ZQXJ/5.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - And more Oceans… Our seas have suffered from decades of decline - collapsing fish stocks are hitting coastal communities and undermining the fight against climate change. Two recent documentaries - Seaspiracy and The Limit - raise fascinating questions about what is really happening to our seas. Spoiler alert: plastics may not be our biggest problem in the ocean... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/38ca33f2-8ab0-4a6b-9781-2adc1879668d/marita-kavelashvili-ugnrXk1129g-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 24 - Top Five Drivers of ESG Investment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/48dd1640-17e7-4084-8553-f0228fe9a14f/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - A Blessing A benediction from the late John O'Donohue, for the consoling embrace of steadiness and clarity in our most difficult moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1617114046220-PON0RZVAV7DI5MR9XK2Q/8.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - We Won! Greenwood Place was recognised with a global award from Catalyst 2030 as Philanthropic Intermediary. Launched at the World Economic Forum in January 2020, Catalyst 2030 comprises more than 500 proven social entrepreneurs who are active in over 180 countries and who directly reach an estimated two billion people. And as part of the (virtual) ceremony, we were thrilled to receive special blessings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Truly a Thursday afternoon to treasure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1617114694303-97TENGYJVZFC9DIZM6EC/jan-kahanek-g3O5ZtRk2E4-unsplash.jpeg News - Briefing No. 24 - Upcoming Events We are looking forward to diving into the Skoll World Forum online on 13-15th April this year. Do join us with us to watch, to learn and to discuss as part of our community. Our next Greenwood Place roundtable is on 18th May. Clean energy visionaries Amar Inamdar and Bill Nussey will join us to discuss what they are doing as leaders and investors, to bring about a green transition. Let us know if you’d like to join. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2021/2/17/briefing-no-23-1 monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613574011229-MK5LQAWCD935O6F2RAS3/1.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - WHAT WE'RE READING On the Greenwood Place bedside table Professor David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity” is an energising and surprising book. Extraordinarily wide-ranging, it is the mental equivalent of the mind-opening travel and conversation that is so challenging right now. Most scientists would tell you that human beings are pretty insignificant - a speck of dust on a small planet. David Deutsch says that is wrong. He says that people matter because they incubate knowledge - a force of almost unlimited power in the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/e19e2312-5586-4fda-8517-376b445083f2/2.jpeg News - Briefing No. 23 - THE TRUST BAROMETER The Edelman Trust Barometer is an online survey carried out annually across 28 markets and with 34,000 respondents in total. The results of Edelman’s 2021 survey reveal an epidemic of misinformation and widespread mistrust of societal institutions and leaders around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613574203255-T29CFYS0H9106FUA1R6U/3.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - BIODIVERSITY AND ECONOMICS Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, of the University of Cambridge, says prosperity has come at a "devastating" cost to the natural world. Today, human beings, together with the livestock we rear for food, constitute 96% of the mass of all mammals on the planet. The remaining 4% is everything else – from elephants to badgers, from moose to monkeys. Dasgupta’s landmark review calls for transformational change in our economic approach to nature. He constructs a grammar for understanding our engagements with Nature – what we take from it, how we transform what we take from it and return to it – and what we can do to change direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/76af83ad-88c4-442c-85e6-b9f89f226c3a/4.jpeg News - Briefing No. 23 - THE WATER PLANET “Every living thing, eagles, roses, whales, butterflies, trees, fishes, corn, turtles, amoebas and even man himself, all are organised water. And there is only one source of life sustaining water, the sea.” Jacques Cousteau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/00985155-c331-4743-b416-5c51bc4dfc5f/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 23 - HOW TO BE ALONE A lyric poem that seems designed for these disquieting times - when the human question is not what you do, nor even who you are, but simply how you go about being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613574386601-ZKZ98BZLU4GBEQJOGE1T/6.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - PODCAST FOR A LONG WALK We just discovered the TED Interviews - a short series of hour-long conversations with extraordinary thinkers. We love Chris Anderson’s conversations with Islamic scholar Dalia Mogahed, and Daniel Kahneman, widely regarded as the world’s most influential living psychologist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613574442714-0TFCY7KPFTIU3SPGADRT/7.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - REFLECTIONS ON LEADERSHIP We are impressed daily by the tenacity and commitment of leaders across our community of grantee partners. Despite a constantly shifting environment, our partners have continued to serve and in many cases have had more impact than ever before. For wisdom and practical ideas we have been digging into “15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership” - recommended by community member Eva Yazhari. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613574850255-1Z6FSWFWQ9WBUDFZOLR3/sebastian-unrau-sp-p7uuT0tw-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - AND FINALLY… We’re eagerly awaiting our pre-ordered copies of Bill Gates’s “How to avoid a climate disaster” and Mark Carney’s “Values”. While we wait for them to arrive, we’ve put together a list of all the books we’ve recommended in the 23 issues of the Greenwood Place Briefing. Our back issue recommendations make an increasingly tall pile and all are worth revisiting. You can easily browse those you missed over the years here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1613575551549-F10C5ACH7V1KNB6Z88JD/tetiana-shyshkina-1UI4fzjjKY0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 23 - UPCOMING EVENTS Thank you to all those who joined us over the past few weeks for conversations with Sir Ronald Cohen and with Emily Bolton. At our next community roundtable conversation we will discuss Igniting the Power of Collective Action with Kennedy Odede of SHOFCO and development economist Courtenay Cabot Venton. Do let us know if you’d like to join us. The Skoll World Forum is on April 13-15, 2021. Join for virtual plenaries, sessions, activities, and more. The Virtual Forum is free and open to all. Registration begins in February here. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/15/briefing-no-22-christmas-edition monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608039817101-L29E3VSBVSGENZCCTX1B/1.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - WHAT WE'RE READING On the Greenwood Place bedside table IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change In IMPACT, Sir Ronald Cohen, philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor and social innovator, argues that impact needs to become a commonplace attribute of a company’s performance. Overthrowing the tyranny of profit and placing impact by its side, to keep it in check, says Cohen, is both possible and critical to our ability to improve lives and protect the planet at scale and at speed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608036898958-F5812KY3MDSY90M1Y6EH/2.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - FROM MORAL TO MARKET SENTIMENTS Why is it that the things we value the most – from frontline nurses to the natural environment to keeping children well fed and educated – seem of little importance to economic markets? In the 2020 Reith Lectures, Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England, examines how economic value and social values have become blurred, how we went from living in a market economy to a market society, and how we can rethink and rebuild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/eece0dcd-9431-4ae3-b9bb-95a1fe415aaa/kazuend-19SC2oaVZW0-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - PLANTING TREES IN FREETOWN Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is on a mission to plant 1 million trees over the next two years, increasing vegetation in her city by fifty percent while shoring up eroding riverbanks and increasing biodiversity. "This isn't just about planting trees; it's about growing trees, and it's about ensuring that each one of us is part of the process." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608037487518-7AOFN2EYE5NVF0JIU8ZW/4.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL VALUES What do we care about? Some values appear to be consistently important everywhere on earth, whilst the importance of others varies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608037650413-X0K0J99LQBIN4I19CCCK/5.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - COMMANDING HOPE In Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril, Author Thomas Homer-Dixon calls on his extraordinary knowledge of how complex societies work and adapt to show how we can mobilise human spirit and imagination to shift civilization onto a new path. He argues that our greatest current danger as a species is that we lose faith in our ability to build a positive future. Hope is our most important asset. Thank you to David Bonbright for the recommendation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/2f0cf1e8-8630-4526-a7e9-1dc42be38961/6.jpeg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - GIRL POWER - KAZAKH STYLE Nomadic life on the plains of western Mongolia is difficult. The men of the Kazakh population who call this harsh but beautiful environment home, have been hunting with eagles to put food on the table in the frigid winter months for 6,000 years. Beautifully shot, the Eagle Huntress tells the story of Aisholpan, thirteen years old and confident in her own ability, who convinces her father to teach her the ways of eagle hunting. A long lineage of men precedes her. We will be watching Aisholpan’s journey with our families this Christmas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608037770422-BWRG4LVPOQGARSWQ3AV0/7.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - CIRCULAR CITIES We recommended Kate Raworth’s book, Doughnut Economics, way back in Briefing No. 4. And we have been following how her thinking has been adopted by farsighted leaders globally. In this year’s Royal Society of Arts lecture, Raworth discusses how pioneering city leaders are combining local aspirations with global responsibility and sets out a roadmap for shaping cities that thrive in balance with humanity and with the planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1608038454753-M56O60J9SRTGCM3QQ5EJ/sebastian-unrau-sp-p7uuT0tw-unsplash.jpg News - Briefing No. 22 - Christmas Edition - FROM THE GREENWOOD PLACE COMMUNITY Congratulations to the A.C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation, winners of the 2020 Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Sustainability Award for the Typhoon Project. Last Mile Health's stunning 2020 Impact Report sums up some of the highs and lows faced by community health workers this year. Do read it. AND FINALLY... The Greenwood Place team is looking forward to a different kind of party this year. We booked an online cooking class with Migrateful. They run cookery classes led by migrant chefs struggling to integrate and access employment due to legal and linguistic barriers. Find out more about Migrateful here. https://www.greenwood.place/news/2020/12/1/greenwood-place-conducted-a-survey-of-our-clients-and-grantees-in-june-2020-the-results-are-linked-here monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5948f0d6b6ac501ba0d37baa/1606816984314-9YAJOB6JY77DY4NELJSW/cover.jpg News - Clients and Grantees Survey Results Greenwood Place conducted a survey of our clients and grantees in June 2020. 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