We are all finding new ways to adjust our lives during this unsettling time of COVID19, and for most that adjustment includes work.  We are being called to create a new kind of “Invoking The Pause”, and Grant Partners (GPs) are responding accordingly.  » Read More

Wow, it's been a whirlwind two weeks in India! We've been in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai and Coimbatore. It's been incredible meeting all sorts of educators, edtech entrepreneurs, Ashoka Fellows, corporate social responsibility folks, NGOs and school associations. We attended two Canada/India trade conferences. We held workshops with 120 principals in Tamil Nadu ("we've never seen them so engaged" said the organizer). We visited the school that did the Planet Protector Academy and was full of super-engaged Planet Protectors who'd transformed their homes, families and community. » Read More

One of the reasons the KALW beat reporters were so excited to take part in the Invoking the Pause Grant program is because it is so rare to get all of us in the room together. We see each other in the newsroom deep in edits with our editors or running around trying to get our sound filed on time. We knew the Pause would be a great way to slow down, bring all of our perspectives to the same room, and talk about a topic that we all care about. So, it’s no surprise that the first challenge was finding times we could all meet — first for a half-day Pause planning retreat, and then for our full 24-hour pause. But, we made it work! We found time to meet twice in September. » Read More

The following writing, titled "The Council of Pronghorn," is one of Williams' many jarring statements on environmental degradation in her book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing.  ITP is proud to have supported this impactful project.  Read the excerpt here.

In collaboration with the 2019 Southwestern Tribal Climate Change Summit, 37 student leaders from across the Southwestern US and Mexico ranging in age from 8 to 22 years old joined Summit attendees to focus on climate strategies and solutions and develop action plans to implement in their communities. Please read more about 2019 ITP Grant Partner, Climate Science Alliance here and here.

We are incredibly grateful for the support of Invoking the Pause for providing this unique and important opportunity to bring together dedicated leaders in Sonoma County and the broader Bay Area to collectively ideate solutions to support the artist-entrepreneur communities that have paved the way for more inclusive and equitable growth and rebuild of communities that have been devastated from the wildfires in Sonoma County. » Read More