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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

“Fourth-grade soccer teams with phone trees have more effective lines of communication than we do,” they wrote: “Even the largest philanthropies figure out what others are doing through random emailing or searching online. We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. Donors are no different.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Stacy Harbaugh

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. This is my favorite time for creative or collaborative work.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s well documented in studies in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and even neuroscience that shaming, blaming, and guilting someone shuts down the center of their brain responsible for learning and growth. The problem with either approach is that both typically get infused with shame, blame, and guilt.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. Like many immigrant communities, the idea that we would make all these sacrifices and then do the arts—it was just assumed that you would never do that. So, that’s where the collaboration comes in.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Your partner calls the midwife , who reminds you what active labor looks and feels like , and how to know when it is time to come in. It is time that community-based midwifery care be recentered in our communities. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no.

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