From corral reefs to polar bear habitat, Diana explores the implications of climate change. Read on to learn how you can help planet earth.

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In 2012, will you be “pushed by your problems” or “led by your dreams?” Read on to learn Diana’s answer and her outlook for 2012.

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Guest post by Emily G. Culbertson, a Chicago-based nonprofit consultant

Why do we tell stories? To make friends, entertain, and teach, no doubt, but I also suspect we tell stories to make sense of the world around us. If we're working for social change, we tell ourselves stories -- about hunger, homelessness, lack of health care, you name it -- to help understand urgent problems and bring them to life, and more importantly to human size, where we might do something about them.

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Guest blog post by: Emily Yu, director, Social Innovation, Case Foundation

What happens when you bring funders and grantees to the same table to talk about power dynamics in the public, private, and charitable sectors? Mike Goorhouse set out to address this very question during this "Connections" session the following quote:

“The giving/receiving process is fundamentally a relationship, one which deserves to be respected in its own right. Both giver and received must work to create the basis for mutual respect and appreciation.  If this is not true the whole thing is a shame.”

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Guest post by Peter Drury. director of development of A Child's Right.

Here’s what happened over lunch today: Catalyze, Epiphany, Lead!

Catalyze
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warmed up Sunday's luncheon crowd by addressing leadership that convenes and catalyzes government, business and philanthropy to work together to change our communities – rather than to ponder platitudes, to take our time, or to sabotage community success due to our collective log jams or impasses.

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