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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Users could browse through each funding opportunity, gleaning high-level information about the organization seeking funding, planned activities, and a section about intended impact. We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. After all, users are not product designers and the importance of proper R&D is paramount.

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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. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. For me, similarly in a theater setting, you might have a small production where you are the playwright, actor, and director.

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

Bloomerang

So that was the value of all the Bitcoin that’s out in the world that has been minted, which means had been created by the protocol. And Bitcoin really wasn’t worth anything because for something to be worth something you’d have to be able to exchange it for something else that has accepted value. trillion.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So that was the value of all the Bitcoin that’s out in the world that has been minted, which means had been created by the protocol. And Bitcoin really wasn’t worth anything because for something to be worth something you’d have to be able to exchange it for something else that has accepted value. And it’s a store of value, obviously.

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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. 41 Midwifery care is high-quality, value-based care that saves lives and money. 55 Historically and traditionally in Black communities, lived experience is valued. We share a collective courage.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

You can reward mutuality by supporting alternative enterprises, community land trusts, worker co-ops, and other solidarity economy activities—and through supporting community labor organizing to assert workers’ rights. 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics?