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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. Importantly, the programs of Social Tinkering welcome people of all ages, including children.

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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. Maryville University reports, “The U.S. “I stopped going to school to take care of my dad.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? My iPad drew a small crowd of adults and children alike as I stepped out of my tent with it on the banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia. Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror?

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” Notes Personal communication from a reader.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

A condensed version of the text has been edited for republication, with permission from University of California Press. They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. 71, 75, 88–96.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. So I’m admittedly a millennial. They’re not going to launder money for someone, right? If you take a resource, you feed kids.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. In 1912, John Whitridge Williams, a professor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States.”

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