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Independent Sector works to strengthen the charitable community by coming together to share ideas, leverage resources, and co-create a brighter future for our communities.

Upswell 2019

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12 years 10 months
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Amy Ferguson
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Amy
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Ferguson
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I am part of a web of writers, editors, videographers, communicators, and ambassadors who help shine a light on how we can all contribute to a loving world. For me this comes through in three simple words: reveal, serve, and inspire. It means researching, listening, sleuthing, writing, connecting, and conspiring for good. 

Our teachers in this work are numerous. I have learned so much from others' fine "translations" of the need for love in our world--epidemiologists, neuroscientists, and public health specialists, artists, clergy, and various lifelong practitioners of compassion--who carry this work into realms of our social life like schools, prisons, and law enforcement circles.

My background is deep in the humanities, and my family tree is of full Catholics (faithful and lapsed), skeptics, and librarians. I have a master's degree in literature and am drawn to volunteer with arts-related organizations and projects. 


 

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“We are all born with 200 bad poems in us.”  —Billy Collins

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Internal Communications Officer
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Selections from the We the People Book Club.
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A gathering to help build, equip, and inspire a community of changemakers devoted to the common good.

Fetzer is a major sponsor of Upswell and will be present at the Public Square gathering space for attendees. We will also be presenting aspects of the Study of Spirituality in America as part of the panel "The Changing Landscape of Religion, Spirituality, and Identity in America." 

Upswell LA

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6 years 4 months
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Katy
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Listwa
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katy@interactiveknowledge.com

Founded on the 40-year legacy of the Independent Sector Conference, Upswell is dedicated to turning empathy into action. Gather with community organizers, social entrepreneurs, government officials, corporate social responsibility practitioners, and staff from nonprofit organizations and foundations in Los Angeles Nov. 14-16. The goal of this big-tent approach is to forge strategic partnerships, address big challenges, exchange lessons learned, and explore current best practices.