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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. The nonprofit sponsors monthly and annual meetups with free food, snacks, and games. Awaiting them was hot chocolate, tea, food, and connections.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? My iPad drew a small crowd of adults and children alike as I stepped out of my tent with it on the banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia. Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror?

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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. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. 2 (2012): 216–43.

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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. You must invite people ahead of time, prepare the menu and food, and set the table. You prepare the space.

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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. A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. 11 (November 2020): 1–12.

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