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Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton
Bill is the Founder and Executive Director of The Civic Canopy.

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From Beating the Odds to Changing the Game

Posted by Bill Fulton on October 12, 2016

We live in a world where addressing complex social issues most often involves working tirelessly to bring groups and communities together to work against existing social norms and “beat the odds,” which are stacked against us. We see small numbers of individuals work their way out of the systems that are built to work against them, yet we often don’t ever realize the results we are hoping for. What if we shifted the way we approach social change from beating the odds and overcoming adversity to changing the system itself, shifting the norms of our society to level the playing field?

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