Banks Benitez

The Origins of our Divisiveness

How the pandemic threatened our sense of control, and how that exacerbated divisiveness.

Uncharted Insider - August 2020

Hi everyone, Welcome to the August edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update * Launched applications for mobile tech ventures: We launched applications for our third year of Visible Connect, an accelerator program for nonprofits changing their communities using mobile tech in partnership with Visible [https://www.visible.com/]. Learn more

Radical Ideas and the Overton Window

Progress happens in leaps; what was once considered radical and fringe can quickly become mainstream.

Trees

I’ve spent a number of weekends this summer in the forests of our Colorado mountains, hiking about, reading poetry, and thinking about the Milky Way. Maybe it’s been the looming fear of our own mortality with COVID, or perhaps it is the way things have a habit of

Take the Long View

Time horizons are one of the most under-considered factors that dictate decision-making.

Uncharted Insider - July 2020

Hi everyone, Welcome to the July edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update * New Uncharted board and team members: Tracey Stewart [https://uncharted.org/people/tracey-stewart/] has joined as an Uncharted Board member and Emily Mochizuki Lutyens [https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-mochizuki-lutyens-a63b3a3a/] has joined as a Program Manager. * Impact