Dawn Wolfe

1 week ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Dawn Wolfe

The whole city buys tickets to feed the one-winged eagle, and the stranger asks why I went to prison, and everyone just wants to see the mistake, to fascinate on a free thing flightless, to squeeze a small fish and feed a big appetite. Everyone except the little girl in line. She demands to know what fish crime deserves this, this dying, this dying slowly, for a show. The adults ignore her, but fish hears.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Dawn Wolfe

Imagine running through a hostile gauntlet of angry protesters when you arrive for a healthcare appointment. Or going to work every day not knowing if yet another extremist, or group of extremists, will invade your office — and whether or not, this time, they have guns. Imagine being able to talk about the most intense bomb scare your workplace has received. Not the only one — the most intense one.

3 weeks ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Dawn Wolfe

Kate Kendall, CEO of the Gill Foundation. Credit: The Gill FoundationOne of the LGBTQ movement’s most impactful advocates has rejoined the struggle for equality under the law for sexual minorities.

1 month ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Dawn Wolfe

The current damage being perpetrated by a federal administration that’s largely dominated by billionaires has done nothing to hurt the popularity of the “eat the rich” meme. However, it would be a mistake to assume that the top income bracket is nothing but a monolithic wall of self-interest. There are actually several organizations by and for the rich dedicated to causes including philanthropic reform, redistribution of wealth and higher taxes.

1 month ago | insidephilanthropy.com | Dawn Wolfe

The leadership of ReImagine Freedom. Left to right: Thabile Makue (they/them), Chief Communications Officer; Abigail Richards (she/her), Vice President;Jessica Nowlan (she/her), President; Anna Malaika Tubbs (she/her), Chief Advancement Officer. Credit: Victoria Gomez/ReImagine FreedomReImagine Freedom President Jessica Nowlan was a formerly incarcerated, seventh-grade dropout in 1996 when she was hired as a youth outreach worker by San Francisco’s Young Women’s Freedom Center at the age of 17.