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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

D in sociology: He had added language and statistics that we wouldn’t have thought to use in the sections covering our need for the grant, what populations would be served, and how we planned to measure outcomes. For example: “Because of your gift, more children will read at this grade level.

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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. “I stopped going to school to take care of my dad. I take care of everyone,” Chan Shue says. They call me Mother Teresa.”

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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. I’m committed to making the world a kinder place, for us now and for our children.”

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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. Later on, White women begin lagging behind White men, especially after having children. preprints/ psyarxiv/mn7b6.

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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. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. —Audre Lorde (“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”) 1. You are asked how you are doing and can tell that the person asking genuinely cares.

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

Bloomerang

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? Now, the nonprofit generally doesn’t have to worry about that because if it’s the nonprofit worried about it, they’re not going to do that.