Upcoming Events: The Commons in Conversation
After the Thanksgiving holiday, The Commons in Conversation returns with a special guest: PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff. She joins the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Stacy Palmer on Wednesday, December 4, at 12:30 p.m. ET for a post-election conversation about what it will take to bring the country together. They will talk about Woodruff’s “America at a Crossroads” series, which reports on the country’s fractures and the role of nonprofits and philanthropy in developing solutions.
📣 Join the conversation! The event is free on LinkedIn. 🎟 Registration is required.
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News and other noteworthy items:
- The latest Heart of Giving podcast from the BBB Wise Giving Alliance features YMCA president and CEO Suzanne McCormick talking about the organization’s work to fight social isolation and its partnership with Catholic Charities and Habitat for Humanity in a project to bridge divides among their volunteers.
- In a Duke University podcast, New York Times columnist David Brooks makes the case that isolation fuels polarization. The author of the recent How to Know a Person, Brooks talks about how to build personal post-election connections in an interview with Alison Jones of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
- Michael Wear of the Center for Christianity and Public Life writes for the think tank Capita about what’s lost in communities as religion declines — and warns that secular substitutes should be scrutinized: “We are making a particular and unnecessary assumption when we move from a recognition of relative religious decline to an assumption that the benefits of religious participation should be replaced with secular alternatives, rather than revitalizing or renewing those religious sources.”
