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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

And the extraction that led to the original accumulation of capital had a whole lot to do with what historians have called the Atlantic or triangular trade. Imagine this. Flint, MI, has clean water and kids aren’t poisoned by lead. All of our communities have fresh, potable water, and our lakes and rivers aren’t polluted.

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Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us

NonProfit Quarterly

This work we’re doing in food culture is ultimately healing work. But systems and practices do not exist in a vacuum; they are an expression of the culture that underpins them. “HAWTHORNE IN THE CORNFIELD” BY CHIP THOMAS/JETSONORAMA.NET. and was first published by NPQ on April 4 , 2022 , and is republished here with minor alterations.

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How to be the Obi-Wan Kenobi of Fundraisers to Guide Your Donor’s Hero Journey

iMarketSmart

Joseph Campbell describes the journey this way: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”[2]. The donor is the hero.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

Kristal: Let’s do it. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. We do these webinars just about every Thursday. We love doing these webinars. Kristal Frazier will provide strategies that will empower you to become confident in your next virtual ask. Full Transcript: Kristal: Okay. Steven: All right, awesome.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

Then, somewhere in the last two years, there was a “great awakening,” and the entire landscape for what is possible changed overnight as workers showed us how to effectively hold global corporations accountable. And workers asked us to do it not just for them but for all of us and our desire to live in a healthy democracy.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

There was no better example of the costs of wealthy nonprofit land control than Yale University’s dominance over New Haven. Given the work that I was doing around universities and cities, how could I refuse? 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut. And the city’s residents were starting to push back.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.