Talking about kindness and generosity can lead to more of it. So, why do we hesitate to share? 🤔 #GivingTuesday

Philanthropy didn’t understand what it was trying to fix shiftthepower.org/2025/04/02/p... They mistook what was unfamiliar for something broken... they encountered something mess and unpredictable, they assumed managing it was the same as improving it. So they built bureaucracies. #ShiftThePower

I really like the nuanced analysis of how activism presents itself in Russia where generally political action is banned: “processes of dispersed, nomadic activism”

Remarkable

This is powerful. “It turns out that the common assumption to dismiss small acts, incremental thinking, and prefigurative desires is self-fulfilling. If we don’t believe in even small politics and changes, then there will be no change.”

The most effective, durable types of power are usually shared via relationships rather than hoarded to ever-smaller groups of individuals. #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday was sparked by a simple idea that blossomed into a global movement.

Awesome headline: UK navy mistook farting whale for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear subs: report nypost.com/2025/01/26/w...

Summary #GivingTuesday Russia results: 41 mln rubles donated through platforms alone, 10% of the population heard of GivingTuesday and 5% ever participated. It was by far the biggest ever 🎉 givingjournal.ru/2024/12/12/4...

This is my first post on this app, so why not a thread? Introducing #GivingTuesday Russia which has been around since 2016 and gives me joy and hope that better future is possible givingtuesday.ru