Ben Hecht

Principal, Reclaiming the Dream LLC. Working w/leaders to build solutions commensurate to our challenges. We can reclaim the dream. Read how:

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

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[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

What a great choice! Congrats to the City of New York

[Maria TorresSpringer @MTorresSpringer]

Deeply humbled to have the opportunity to serve the city again as Deputy Mayor for Economic & Workforce Development & to do so w/ these extraordinary women leaders. TY to @ericadamsfornyc for your trust in me and @darrenwalker for the honor of working for you @FordFoundation.

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

One of my favorite authors and people, @NadiaOwusu1’s Aftershocks, is on this list! Read this brilliant person’s brilliant book. Congrats!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Over the next few days, I'll share my annual list of favorite books, music, and movies. Art always sustains and nourishes the soul. But for me, music and storytelling felt especially urgent during this pandemic year. I'll start by sharing some of my favorite books of 2021:

[Joann Massey @Joann_Massey901]

Good times with great people! @benhecht looking forward to the next chapter. @Living_Cities @CityNourishER @JulieBosland @its_jul @evburnett @DocJQueen

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

Great choice! The @Living_Cities board has selected Joe Scantlebury as our next CEO. Joe is not just a great person but the right person for right now—coming w/ 3 decades of experience fighting for racial & economic equity in philanthropy, policy & law. https://t.co/E7QWeB54V4

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

‘Conflict is the midwife of consciousness.’

Read @Karalnae prescription for what should be next. Conflict as a Sign of Hope https://t.co/54NfsCs4gW

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

Great to talk with @natashamartell from @Intel for a Q&A on how @Living_Cities is harnessing the power of partnerships to #CloseTheGaps in American cities. https://t.co/lgMwHhUtnb

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

Living Cities is proud to be one of @Intel’s social equity partners. Read my convo w/ @Natasha Martell Jackson from Intel’s Social Equity Program Office about our Closing the Gap Network which equips city leaders with racial equity tools, and much more. https://t.co/aAOakrW3FR

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

We have spent trillions of dollars on wars & tax cuts for the wealthy…on health insurance subsidies & coronavirus relief. It is in our power to wipe out poverty. It simply isn’t among our priorities.

What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor https://t.co/LWQNrVdIro

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

‘Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present. Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risk of infection.’

Germany faced its horrible past. Can we do the same? Read @michel_norris https://t.co/ZKRV422q1h

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

‘The country is tasked with putting balm on the wounds left behind by the massacre. But we also need to grab hold to the guilt. Lean into it & steady ourselves with it. And then move it aside to make room for the light’.

Read @RobinGivhan on #Greenwood https://t.co/618lTvlw5J

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

Delivering justice, actually healing & atoning, requires coming together to do the hard work. It takes time. It demands we listen. And for me, last summer, it required an invitation and an apology.

So well said. Read Richmond Mayor @LevarStoney https://t.co/BgTpaJYBwe

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

This is real and ignored by so many. Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications https://t.co/hTU74gdCK5

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

Congrats on your leadership, @SonalRShah

[Sonal Shah @SonalRShah]

Today, we launched The Asian American Foundation. Join us.

[Living Cities @Living_Cities]

We’re a collaborative of some of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions, committed to fostering relationships across sectors to connect those who are willing to do the work of closing racial income and wealth gaps.

Join us. https://t.co/TKc8vW6kIQ

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

This is beautiful, unique to @minjinlee11, yet so familiar to me...and so many.

A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World https://t.co/ftxOrsmMfH

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

What a great choice! Congrats, @TaifaButler

[Taifa Smith Butler @TaifaButler]

Some big personal news: After nearly a decade working for the well-being of all Georgians at @GABudget, I’m elated to share I will be joining @Demos_Org as its next president in July.

[Ben Hecht @benhecht]

...and the utter suspension of disbelief that it is not possible

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Racial wealth gap explained really well...through our experience playing Monopoly.

Read this.

“No one thing alone is going to check the box to close the wealth gap, but the combination of all these things together will make real progress.”

https://t.co/MqPld3C9iH