If you spend enough time on social media, you'll find no shortage of people willing to tell you what's wrong with our community. Homelessness. Crime. Addiction. Vacant buildings. Struggling neighborhoods. The problems are easy to see, and most of us agree they deserve attention. What is much harder—and far more important—is deciding what we're willing to do about them. Real change rarely begins with criticism. It begins when people come together, roll up their sleeves and bec

At the Heart of It All: Caring with service and community Some years ago, I began taking classes towards my master’s degree. A running theme in each class, no matter the class: health law or organizational behavior, was Service to Others. The more I began to realize what was behind the meaning they were teaching, I was like a second grader in the front row of the classroom, “I know, I know!” For some years I worked for an organization who did exactly that: they put their empl

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