On any given morning, Becca Bloom can be found sweeping through her sun-drenched Bay Area dressing room, Hermès scarves cascading from polished brass drawers, a tower of Chanel ribbon teetering on the edge of her vanity,

The business of belonging and how your brand can build a community around it to better succeed in the year ahead.

What is working online now, and building your brand and content strategy for the year ahead. Read on to find out more.

In the ever-evolving ecosystem of social media, TikTok has given rise to niche subcultures that can explode overnight. One of the most talked-about—and, at times, controversial—is #RichTok

How to Connect With Donors When the Economy Feels Hostile: Notes on Uncertainty, Generosity, and the Politics of Nonprofit Survival in 2026 The year 2026 arrives not as a marker of progress but as a reminder of the elasticity of crisis. Inflation has become a kind of national background noise—persistent, dull, and impossible to tune out. Economic forecasters talk about “cooling” in the cautious tone one uses to describe a fever that has lowered by a degree but still threatens what it inhabits. For nonprofits, especially those that survive on the thin membrane between donor optimism and donor fatigue, this is the landscape: ambient anxiety, deferred generosity, the ever-present suspicion that giving—once a gesture of civic participation—is now a luxury.

On a humid afternoon in western Kenya, a nurse named Miriam sits under the corrugated iron awning of a small fishing cooperative and counts blister packs. She speaks with a quiet authority, one honed through years of balancing the ledger of human urgency and structural scarcity. Around her, fishermen drift in and out—men who spend long days on Lake Victoria and nights in transient communities along its edge. They come here not for medical care in the traditional sense, but for something closer to negotiation: how to stay safe amid circumstances that rarely bend to individual will. On the table between them lies a small box of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, the daily pill that—if taken reliably—reduces the risk of acquiring HIV to nearly zero.

In the northern districts of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, there is a neighborhood where dusk arrives before the sun sets. The light doesn’t dim early—rather, the absence of illumination is imposed by rolling blackouts, the quiet prelude to what locals call “digital silence.” It’s the kind of silence that accumulates over years: thin, granular, nearly invisible until it becomes total. When the electricity cuts out, cell-phone towers stutter. The few public Wi-Fi kiosks blink off. And the digital life that people elsewhere take as a fact of modern existence collapses for hours at a time, revealing that for millions across the global South, the much-touted information age is less an era than a rumor.

The problem with hunger — particularly the hunger of children — is that it is both ubiquitous and invisible. It exists in plain sight, in the way a child fidgets too much or too little; in the persistent cough that accompanies malnutrition; in the mother who measures out portions with the precision of a scientist, except this experiment does not end with discovery. It ends with survival, if she is lucky.

Running a small business is a rewarding yet challenging endeavor. As a small business owner, you’re constantly juggling multiple roles — entrepreneur, manager, marketer, and sometimes even accountant. While hands-on experience is essential for growth, one of the most powerful ways to accelerate your journey as a business owner is through reading. Books can provide invaluable insights into strategy, leadership, marketing, and operations that help you navigate the ever-changing landscape of entrepreneurship.

Internal communication ideas I’m lovin’ lately: (Be sure to take notes on this one! It may come in handy.)