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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.” Climate Feelings and Severe Weather Events High temperatures make loneliness worse—and loneliness makes heat worse.

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

iMarketSmart

I needed to learn their story, their values. This distinction arises in anthropology and sociology theories.[14] The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150–169. [14] 14] In anthropology and sociology this distinction originates in the work of Mauss (1923). Sociological Forum, 6 (1), 119-136. Money is anti-social.

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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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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion”—a figure comparable to the total value of the US’ Black-White racial wealth gap. Valuing and compensating women’s work on behalf of loved ones affected by incarceration will be an especially pivotal task in the coming period of decarceration. Of this figure, roughly $73.9

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

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.” 41 Midwifery care is high-quality, value-based care that saves lives and money.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Association for Black Foundation Executives hosts an annual retreat for Black Women in Philanthropy. Mike Sosteric, “A Sociology of Archetypes,” PsyArXiv Preprints, January 5, 2021, osf.io/preprints/ See for example Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy , ed. Frieda Fordham and Michael S.