https://www.gregberman.org/home daily 1.0 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/34c8699a-20af-4425-bedc-45760c0410d0/1MIV7281.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/18dfcf77-8a4c-4922-be26-6b5d57204a27/IMG_0827.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/26c1401a-cbf2-4ee9-8859-700b51b6c65a/Gradual_002.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/d6a5f4a0-4d8e-4395-88a7-486927bd0c61/Screen+Shot+2022-02-26+at+3.31.04+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/e26f465e-1acc-4c40-8dac-68d22ddf0625/Polarization-project-main-image-v5.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/46c12255-c60f-49cd-998b-c2c0361d3da8/Screen+Shot+2022-02-27+at+10.25.27+AM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/82b4668c-ad3c-4b02-b620-81b1555f2d95/30275073382_40e0790b4f_o.jpeg Home https://www.gregberman.org/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/f26dd36f-1710-4308-8be9-e0e90329942a/Screen+Shot+2025-02-10+at+9.17.33+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/5b55adc8-55c4-4d7f-a78d-abd9bfb2071c/Screen+Shot+2025-02-10+at+9.20.30+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/dee7c34c-5534-4b9b-894b-fa17a4249a42/Screen+Shot+2025-02-10+at+9.23.08+AM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/e381a7f5-8a7a-4eeb-b70e-5bd94492f2de/IMG_0417.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/1617896794051-TE43RL555Z28XCH1UT1W/IMG_2648.jpeg Essays - Incrementalism Three Cheers for Gradualism (Persuasion) Honesty and Incremental Reforms May Be the Keys to Solving Difficult Social Issues (City & State) Do Americans Really Want Bold, Sweeping Change? (New York Daily News) Man Plans, God Laughs: How Not to Reform the Criminal Justice System (Gotham Gazette) In Defense of Incrementalism: A Call for Radical Realism (The Hill) The Justice System Case for Radical Incrementalism (Gotham Gazette) The Challenge of Cultural Change on Rikers Island (Gotham Gazette) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/1603114650150-RVFECRNZJ053FY5YQGQD/IMG_0385.jpeg Essays - Culture The Secret Ingredient to Zohran Mamdani’s Success (Washington Post) New York Is Not Broken (Vital City) Excessive Media Criticism Is Only Making the Media Worse (The Hill) How To Be A Man: ‘Rio Bravo’ and the Search for a New Masculinity (The Good Men Project) We All Work at the New York Times Now (Areo) What Old School Hip-Hop Has to Say About Our Political Moment (Pop Matters) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/1bfe819e-75ed-4235-87da-398922624c53/DSC_0325.jpeg Essays - Book Reviews Evidence Over Intuition (Vital City) Why Abundance Matters (Vital City) Why Not Moderation? (Society) An Obama Administration Veteran Explains How Government Can Do Better (The National Book Review) There Are No Solutions: Making Sense of New York at the End of the 20th Century (And Now) (Vital City) Willing To Be Lucky: Dante Ross and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop in New York (Vital City) The Best Books to Read If You Want Government to Work Better (Book DNA) Book Review: Bleeding Out (New York Law Journal) Can We Stop Both Crime and Incarceration? (Public Books) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/1603114396777-V3YK6O4BY7OVXSOQQUAY/IMG_6209.jpeg Essays - Nonprofit Leadership The Case for Softer Leadership with Young Staff (Chronicle of Philanthropy) The Seduction of Nonprofit Mission Creep (Stanford Social Innovation Review) Trump vs. Civil Society (Vital City) Fear and Loathing in the Nonprofit Sector (Persuasion) What Role Should Nonprofits Play in Cities? (Vital City) Trump’s Misguided War on Nonprofits (New York Daily News) Are Nonprofits the Permanent Government of New York City? (City & State) Nolvia Delgado (City & State) Nic Dawes (City & State) Chloe Breyer (City & State) Rich Leimsider (City & State) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What Do Nonprofit Leaders Really Think? (City & State) Nora McCarthy (City & State) Leaders Must Confront Declining Trust in the Nonprofit World — Before It’s Too Late (Chronicle of Philanthropy) Susan Stamler (City & State) What Do Nonprofit Leaders Really Think About Unionization? (City & State) Melanie Hartzog (City & State) Frankie Miranda (City & State) Debra-Ellen Glickstein (City & State) Why the Unhappiness of Nonprofit Leaders Matters (City & State) Bill Baccaglini (City & State) David Nocenti (City & State) Jordyn Lexton (City & State) Jose Ortiz Jr. (City & State) Remembering Herb Sturz: Pioneering Social Entrepreneur (Gotham Gazette) Richard Buery (City & State) Joe DeGenova (City & State) Kym Hardy Watson (City & State) Hard Choices: How Can the “Nonprofit Industrial Complex” Do Better? (City & State) Paulette LoMonaco (City & State) Christie Peale (City & State) Vivian Nixon (City & State) Ron Richter (City & State) A Moment of Reckoning for Nonprofit Leaders (LA Review of Books) Quardean Lewis-Allen (City & State) Jennifer Jones Austin (City & State) Meg Barnette (City & State) Herb Sturz (City & State) The Post-COVID Nonprofit (City & State) Responding to Race and COVID-19 (City & State) Emma Jordan-Simpson (City & State) Fatima Shama (City & State) John Raskin (City & State) Colvin Grannum (City & State) Phoebe Boyer (City & State) Wayne Ho (City & State) Nonprofit Innovators Can Learn From Failure As Well As Success (Chronicle of Philanthropy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/67d6415e-0593-42c9-95ad-c5ee9ed48f00/IMG_2876.jpeg Essays - Polarization “The Potential for Terrorism Is Pretty Frightening” (The Fulcrum) “When People Spend Time Together They Are Less Inclined To See Each Other as the Enemy”(The Fulcrum) “There Are Very Few Democracies That Are As Polarized As We Are” (The Fulcrum) “Political Polarization Has Become Entertainment” (The Fulcrum) “There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent About Democracy” (The Fulcrum) “Stories About the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us” (The Fulcrum) “We’re Ignoring Our Common Values and Interests” (The Fulcrum) “There Is a Diffused Climate of Threats and Intimidation” (The Fulcrum) “A Healthy Democracy Requires Social Trust” (The Fulcrum) “Democracy Is Something We Have to Fight For” (The Fulcrum) “A Truly Pluralistic Society Has Both Inclusion and Dissent” (The Fulcrum) “The Problem Comes From the Top” (The Fulcrum) “It’s Time To Be Very Afraid” (The Fulcrum) “We’re in the Danger Zone” (The Fulcrum) “Pluralism Is a Learned Value” (The Fulcrum) Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture (The Fulcrum) https://www.gregberman.org/bio daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e1901856942575559ab6cb2/e739370d-4c7b-4a8c-9daa-46b073303651/Screen+Shot+2022-02-27+at+9.52.42+AM.png Bio/Contact - Bio Greg Berman is the distinguished fellow of practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the co-editor of Vital City. Part of the founding team responsible for creating the Center for Justice Innovation (formerly the Center for Court Innovation), he served as director of the organization from 2002-2020, helping to guide the Center from start-up to more than 600 employees. The Center’s operating programs have been documented by independent evaluators to improve public safety, reduce incarceration, and enhance public trust in justice. Under Greg’s leadership, the Center for Court Innovation won numerous local and national prizes, including the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-profit Innovation. Greg is the author/co-author of several books, including Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age, which was named one of the books of the year by The Economist and shortlisted for the 2024 Zócalo Book Prize. Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration was short-listed for the Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice and the Media for a Just Society Award. Other books include: Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration, Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform, and Good Courts. In addition, his written work has appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Persuasion, The Hill, Governing, The Guardian, New York Daily News, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Public Books, City & State, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Statesman, Stanford Social Innovation Reviewl, Fulcrum, and many other publications. Prior to being named director of the Center for Court Innovation in 2002, Greg served as deputy director of the Center and as the lead planner of the Red Hook Community Justice Center. Greg has served on numerous boards and task forces including: New York City Board of Correction, New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, Coro New York, Centre for Justice Innovation UK (former chair), Sloan Public Service Awards, New York Nonprofit Media, National Policing Institute, and the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform (the Lippman Commission). 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