Back to the mountains for a proper visit for the first time in years. Based at Moraine Park Campground for an unplugged week of camping, hiking, and reading. 📷 Vacation Slideshow.
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🇱🇻Visiting Riga, Lativa
A beautiful, friendly city that I would love to return to and explore more, along with the rest of the Baltic states
🇩🇪 Visiting Berlin
A week was not enough. I should have visited much sooner!
About this website – ☕ Chris Beckstrom’s Stream 🗣
What is this? This is my personal homepage. Yes, I know that sounds a bit like 1998, and with good reason: back in 1998, it was common practice for individuals to build their own (crude) websites (geocities anybody?) and share their deepest thoughts and most garish color schemes. When social media giants like Facebook andContinueContinue reading “About this website – ☕ Chris Beckstrom’s Stream 🗣”
👻 Funders who ghost
The all-too-common problem of funders going radio silent without the courtesy say “no”.
🇩🇰 Copenhagen Quick Hit
A quick day and a half in Copenhagen in the middle of 2017 Behind the Iron Curtain tour.
💩💰Nonprofit life goes up, down, and sideways
It’s never a dull day in this world, and often the full range from good to bad happens on the same day.
☣️Visiting the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site
Tips, tricks, and resources for visiting the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
🇪🇺 Year in Cities 2017
From Wichita to Chernobyl, and everything in between.
🇺🇦Visiting Kyiv, Ukraine
A stopover en route to visiting the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone turned out to be a delightful surprise
🇵🇹 Visiting Lisbon
A week in Portugal studying the nonprofit and government sectors for grad school.
Ⓜ The Four M’s of Nonprofit Decision-Making
How nonprofits can make decisions about what’s important.
🇿🇦Visiting Cape Town, South Africa
Two weeks in the Mother City, one of my favorite places on earth.
🎧 I’m on the Bike Nerds Podcast
This month I’m honored to be a guest on The Bike Nerds Podcast. We talked about nonprofit startups, bike success in unlikely places, and the state of the national bike/ped movement.
🎙️Is this thing on?
Might be getting back into writing…