Do you work for or support a non-profit organization? You want to help people, or the environment, or otherwise contribute something positive to life on earth. You probably care about a number of worthwhile causes. But most non-profits concentrate on single issues. They compete with all the other non-profits for donations, media attention, and government resources.

Non-profits don’t tend to collaborate. They struggle for top billing on the national or global agenda. Yet all their good causes are separate battlefronts in the same war. Each organization fighting for racial justice or economic fairness, against fossil fuels or against war, is trying to shape a future that reaches all these goals. They seem like separate causes, but they depend on one another for success. How can we achieve economic justice, for example, while the poorest communities are most threatened by climate change?

Urge the organizations you support to find ways to work together. Form coalitions. Publicize one another’s campaigns. Explore links between issues. As long as we allow the single-issue groups to ignore everything else we care about, we won’t have a movement for positive change. We’ll only have “special interests.” And there’s no profit in that.