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Using Psychology in Nonprofit Marketing

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

My college journey went on to start with a major in sociology – the study of human social behavior, a natural fit for someone intrigued by the mind and social society. As nonprofit marketers, we are constantly using the laws of psychology and sociology, sometimes without even realizing it.

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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. Women in law enforcement in the U.S. “ Women in #law #enforcement in the U.S.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. The rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.

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In This Together: The Power of a Movement

Fundraising Leadership

Dukes’ contentions were seconded by her co-panelist, Northwestern University sociology professor Aldon Morris, who observed that Coretta Scott King was “more militant than MLK — not just a chandelier hanging on his arm.” Organizing is in our DNA,” she said. So very true.

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How to Lower the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Your Supporters Donate Major Gifts of Assets

iMarketSmart

I was fresh out of law school. This distinction arises in anthropology and sociology theories.[14] Visual planned giving in color: An introduction to the law & taxation of charitable gift planning. The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150–169. [14] Sociological Forum, 6 (1), 119-136. Money is anti-social.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

After that, the idea is transferred into French law and political theory in the 1800s and finds its way into politics. Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

She is ambitious and has her mind set on parlaying her law degree into a White House career. When faced with conflict, she calls the authorities or invokes the law to solve problems that don’t require that level of escalation. Mike Sosteric, “A Sociology of Archetypes,” PsyArXiv Preprints, January 5, 2021, osf.io/preprints/