You’ve heard that Upswell is going to be a new kind of experience. But what does that even mean?! The short answer, of course, is that you’ll have to join us in LA this November 14-16 to really understand. But that’s not a satisfying response! Don’t worry, we’re not trying to be mysterious. If there’s…
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/ By Debra Rainey / Upswell is about imagining new approaches to difficult social challenges. It’s about fresh, innovative ideas that are working in local communities, and envisioning whether they just might work in the community you serve, too. You’ll be able to do just that at Upswell during LA Inside and Out – “immersion…
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/ By Christian Clansky / It’s May the Fourth – the biggest Star Wars holiday of the year – and, for some inexplicable reason, we don’t get the day off work. So, I’m going to turn work into a celebration of Star Wars instead! I’ll say up front that I am a massive Star Wars…
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/ By Marie LeBlanc / On April 24, we hosted the second Upswell Lab, again in our Upswell 2018 home base, Los Angeles. This Lab built on the conversations that we started in February about the urgent issues facing Los Angeles today (read more about it here). We heard from changemakers across LA that the…
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/ By Robert Jones / At The Main Museum in downtown LA, Allison Agsten and her team are building something more than a collection – they’re building a community. Just blocks from Skid Row, The Main Museum in downtown Los Angeles offers a haven of peace and beauty that can seem a world away from…
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/ By Robert Jones / At the recent Upswell Lab in Los Angeles, it was easy to forget that thousands of homeless men and women were huddled on the sidewalks for blocks and blocks in every direction. On the second-floor terrace of the Star Apartments, birds chirped, bees buzzed and breezes fluttered the blue-striped market…
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/ By Jackie Brennan / Syrian-born Azniv Korkejian was sad to leave Saudi Arabia for the United States at the age of 10, when her Armenian parents unexpectedly won a green-card lottery. The displacement left her with a sense of wandering that followed her through her teens and 20s, as she and her family moved…
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Upswell is all about building a community of changemakers to make real change happen in communities. So what better place to honor an emerging changemaker from our community who has demonstrated transformative social impact through collaborative leadership? The nomination period for the 2018 NGen Leadership Award is open through Friday, May 25. For the last…
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/ By Kristina Gawrgy Campbell / We recently caught up with Building Movement Project’s Co-Director Frances Kunreuther to talk about their latest report, California’s Race to Lead: The Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap in the Golden State. Their first Race to Lead report, which looked at the sector’s nationwide data on the leadership gap based on…
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/ By Robert Jones / It’s no secret that Los Angeles is a car-crazy place. But if you’re flying in for Upswell and don’t want to pay $42 a day to park your rental car at the InterContinental, does that mean you’ll be “stuck” downtown or paying expensive Uber fares? Thanks to Metro, the answer…
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