Reflections from behind the scenes
Why we have to cancel the Bootcamp4Life
What do you do when, after several months of dreaming and designing a program, you launch it and no one signs up? Here are my reflections on gut-feeling, learning from failure and listening to the target group. Over a year ago, we started dreaming of creating a program for youth that would tackle what we […]
Helping Changemakers grow
Whether you are a professional or volunteer Changemaker, we are always facing challenges that are very specific for our line of work. And it is usually insufficient to ask for help from friends and family from other areas, because of the nature of these challenges. NOW has open spots for its new tool to support […]
Grow, Learn, Change
During NOW’s restructuring process, we realised we have an amazing network of people who want to learn from each other, want to create change in the world, and want to grow together. We also noticed that staying connected across distances and supporting each other in our development as changemakers was a powerful element of our […]
The big NOW re-structuring
The need We started NOW out of pure enthusiasm in 2015. Officially instated as non-profit association in Switzerland in 2016, we never took the time to explore what would be the ideal set-up for this endeavour. We had lots of ideals of equality and inclusion, but not the experience of making such an organization work. […]
Embracing emotions in Jūrmala
Arriving to winter wonderland When I travel, one of the things I do, is to ask locals for words that exist only in their language and which full meaning can not be translated easily. For my time in Latvia, this word will be vakarēša – which means an „evening being“ when you get to sit […]