Stewards of well-being and justice are people and organizations who share responsibility for working across differences to expand the vital conditions all people and places need to thrive.
System stewards increasingly recognize that it is not possible to counter systemic threats by delivering more and more services to growing groups of people in need.
WE MUST BECOME MULTISOLVERS: more likely to look through a macroscope than a microscope, to connect rather than go solo, and to solve for many goals at once rather than switch from one crisis to another.
LISTEN TO STEWARDS working in communities, organizations, and networks across the country share ways they advance well-being and justice.
As we look at creating an equitable economy, we have to make sure we those who want to be future business owners have the opportunities to get the education they need.
Rayon Brown
Now that we’ve built relationships across differences, what are we going to do about it? Is it a pothole on Main Street? Is it climate change? Whatever it is, let’s unleash that force–and we better be starting with the young people.
Pearce Godwin
There’s a shift that needs to occur in terms of what we really think is important, what we really value.
Darrell Hillaire
What is the investment we need to make as a collective community? And how to we align investors to get us where we want to go.
Paula Morgen
I don’t have to create a meeting or create a group, if I could just find where I need to go. We try to ask people constantly: where should I go? Who should I be talking to?
Liz Baxter
That’s the insidious nature of racism and anti-Blackness. … you don’t even realize you’re hurting white America, too.
Michael McAfee
People are ready. People want to do more. People want to see their communities whole.
Mary Wilson
In every state, every city, there’s been some expression [for racial justice] and there’s already been change.
john powell
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