Previous Posts
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Me! In NonProfit Quarterly!
I have long had ‘Publish a piece in NonProfit Quarterly’ on my bucket list. Even before I started The Wind Down, I felt myself drawn…
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Tending to Endings at Practices for Composting and Hospicing
Since April 2024, I have been the facilitator of the Practices of Composting and Hospicing community. Next month, we will be joined by the team…
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How You Made Them Feel OR “Cruelty Over Care In Closure”
These past few weeks have been rife with the abrupt shuttering of government programs, firings of thousands of government and nonprofit employees, and the long…
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Me on the Leaving Well Podcast!
I was honored to speak with my dear pal Naomi Hattaway on her fantastic Leaving Well podcast. It’s relatively short and I hope you will…
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Twists and Turns From Year One of Winding Down
I did not expect to be here at the end of the year. At the beginning of this year, I had (yes) purchased this domain…
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Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds
As part of my work facilitating the Practices of Composting and Hospicing community under the umbrellas of Stewarding Loss and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Emerging…
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Towards Your “Tombstone Site”
As part of my work developing The Wind Down, I have been bookmarking the websites of sunset nonprofits for the past few years. As my…
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Signalling A Pause
In talking to people on the hotline, I meet them where they are in their closing journey. While some of them are certain they are…
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Announcing the Closing Remarks Newsletter
Hi friends! I started a newsletter. It’s called Closing Remarks and it’s gonna be a semi-regular (maybe twice a month?) roundup of links related to…
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A Good Day To Die: Some Reasons To Call It Quits
One of the major goals of The Wind Down is to help shift the discourse around non-profit endings so that the immediate assumption isn’t that…
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What To Say (And Not Say!) When A Person Is Going Through A Non-Profit Closure
Though closures of projects in the civil society/non-profit space are nothing new, it still can be a bit tricky to know how to be supportive…
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What I’m Doing – April 2024
These last few months of building this practice have been some of the most satisfying of my life. With every passing networking call, I feel…

