by Grace Alfiero | Jul 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
After college and before I met the man I am married to, I dated a narcissist. During a brutally lengthy five year, on-again, off-again relationship, I was ultimately forced to confront my own control and anxiety issues. Now, my recollections of this time are still...
by Grace Alfiero | May 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, COVID Stories, feminism, Leadership, News, Pandemic Tales, Storytelling
In the early 1990s, I worked for a law office and provided geriatric care management for several of the firm’s clients. We offered family law services, trust, and estate planning, and handled dependency cases. Half of the work was legal in nature, and the other half...
by Grace Alfiero | Apr 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, Client News, Leadership, Photography, Program Management, Storytelling
Some not so obvious casualties of this COVID-19 pandemic are the auxiliary services previously provided to communities by nonprofit entities before our worlds were flipped upside down. Once a region has developed processes and procedures to support urgent needs for...
by Grace Alfiero | Mar 15, 2019 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, Leadership, News, Storytelling
Just like no one truly owns a beautiful forest and no one truly owns a coral reef, nonprofit organizations were not set up to be owned by any one individual. Sole ownership of a tax exempt entity is counter intuitive and the antithesis of the sectors’ original...
by Grace Alfiero | Nov 10, 2018 | Advocacy, News, Photography, Storytelling
Lately, with all of the strong feelings and opinions being expressed in our society, I sometimes feel like perhaps we are losing sight of some very important aspects of life, being part of a community, and mainly expressing gratitude and reverence. This weekend we set...
by Grace Alfiero | Oct 16, 2018 | Advocacy, Career Mamma, feminism, News, Photography, Storytelling
Lately, I’ve been looking for truth in a lot of places, and coming up short. These days it is difficult to tell if a news story is factual and void of conspiracy theories. If there isn’t a conspiracy theory unveiled, then my mind quickly develops one. It seems...
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