The Revolution Will Not Be Funded | Part 2 of 3 from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA

Welcome back. We ended last week with a quote from Lumbee Tribal member Edgar Villanueva: "All of us who have been forced to the margins are the very ones who harbor the best solutions." But those solutions remain unfunded because funders with the least connection to problems control resources meant to solve them. This week, we're digging deeper into the inequality—and inequity—in the vast majority of nonprofit boards.

Homelessness, Community, Letters to the HousedPaul AsplundNovember 17, 2025EndHomelessness, NonprofitLeadership, SocialJustice, RadicalHospitality, MissionDrift, SystemicChange, HousingJustice, CommunityOrganizing, PhilanthropyReform, TraumaInformedComment

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded | Part 1 of 3 from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA

How big funding systematically warps nonprofit missions. Research on institutional isomorphism, the nonprofit industrial complex, and choosing mission over money.

Homelessness, Community, Letters to the HousedPaul AsplundNovember 8, 2025EndHomelessness, NonprofitLeadership, SocialJustice, RadicalHospitality, MissionDrift, SystemicChange, HousingJustice, CommunityOrganizing, PhilanthropyReform, TraumaInformedComment

From Wrestling to Surrender: What Happens When We Stop Fighting the Call to Serve - Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund

Discover what happens when we stop fighting the call to serve others. From San Francisco's streets to spiritual transformation, learn how sustained engagement with homelessness reveals profound truths about dignity, community, and our own healing.

We Are Not Intimidated: A July 4th Reflection - Letters to the Housed

The past 8 months have been tough. The work I have done for the last decade has become more difficult, more treacherous for the people we serve and requires me to dig deep inside myself for resources of spirit and hope that I never knew I had.