Archive - Changemakers’ Substack

Want to know you’re making a difference? Let’s build your impact model!

In an earlier post, I introduced the concept of “impact,” explain why it (increasingly) matters, and argued that you create an impact model for your…

6 hrs ago •

Elena Bondareva

Political assassinations. Tanks in the streets. Fealty and fear. A Saturday morning in… wait… America!?

Reflections from a person who thought she moved away from countries where this happens

Jun 14 •

Elena Bondareva

17:20

Warning: your effort to change the world could be sabotaged by split personality

Why you must distill what you and your project are, at the cost of everything else

Jun 12 •

Elena Bondareva

15:35

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Gems for humans changing the world

Part 1 | Some of my favorite things: books+podcasts

Mar 28 •

Elena Bondareva

PLAYLIST: on darkness/depression

Depression is as familiar to me as rain.

Mar 28 •

Elena Bondareva

Is depression the inevitable cost of changing the world?

On darkness/depression | Part 4

Mar 21 •

Elena Bondareva

20:25

Want to change the world? Master systems thinking

Allow me to try to demystify this topic

Mar 13 •

Elena Bondareva

12:24

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