Carrie reflects on her conversation with STRIVE’s Phil Weinberg and the difference between the resilience you feel and the resilience you build. Three takeaways on mindset, muscle, and the cost of apologizing for the work that holds everything up.
Hosted by social impact expert and B Corp leader Carrie Fox, each episode of Mission Forward explores the power of communications. With just the right mix of practical and thought-provoking content, we take on the issues that matter to you, and that support your work as a communicator for change.
Carrie reflects on her conversation with STRIVE’s Phil Weinberg and the difference between the resilience you feel and the resilience you build. Three takeaways on mindset, muscle, and the cost of apologizing for the work that holds everything up.
Phil Weinberg has spent fourteen years building STRIVE into one of the nation’s most durable workforce development organizations, and he thinks the sector has been wrong about overhead all along. This week, he tells Carrie Fox why the infrastructure nonprofits are taught to apologize for is, in fact, the product.
In this week’s reflection, Carrie draws out three lessons from her conversation with Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation.
When the words that once built trust start closing doors instead, how do you keep communicating â and keep people listening? Amanda Kwong, director of the Public Health Communications Collaborative at the de Beaumont Foundation, joins Carrie to talk about the art of plain language, the politics of the words we choose, and what it looks like to lead a public health communications network of 40,000 through one of the most turbulent moments in recent memory.
