article thumbnail

Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

As the Canadian Medical Association Journal wrote in 2021, “Studies have linked the consumption of bad news to increased distress, anxiety and depression, even when the news in question is relatively mundane.” Importantly, the programs of Social Tinkering welcome people of all ages, including children.

article thumbnail

What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

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. billion ($7,695,892,661) are associated with partner incarceration-related depression episodes among Black women. billion ($40,138,541,763).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Mammy archetype is the image of an unattractive Black mother who is strong and content in her caregiving role for many children in the service of White slave owners or White employers. The Association for Black Foundation Executives hosts an annual retreat for Black Women in Philanthropy. preprints/ psyarxiv/mn7b6.

article thumbnail

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.”

Health 113
article thumbnail

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

Bloomerang

And that’s really all that most blockchains associated with cryptocurrencies have in them. So if you even were to take a cash donation, you know, that came in a sack or whatever and you fed children with it, there’s actually no liability there, right? And a ledger, right? They have outs. So they’ve got ins and outs.

article thumbnail

Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And that’s really all that most blockchains associated with cryptocurrencies have in them. So if you even were to take a cash donation, you know, that came in a sack or whatever and you fed children with it, there’s actually no liability there, right? And a ledger, right? It’s a record of the ins and outs to different accounts.