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Building Community Through Soccer: Maigan T. Bridgette’s Story at Sporting Kansas City

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

With a passion for political science and social justice, she initially envisioned a career in law but found herself drawn to the nonprofit sector. Collaborating with local nonprofits, businesses, and community leaders, Maigan and the Sporting Kansas City team strive to create lasting change in the lives of KC residents.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

We cannot say that we know as a whole what these phenomena are, but we have caught glimpses in our models that these realities are possible; and, therefore, we have hope that our combined creativity, imagination, collaborative abilities, and technological innovations will shed light on these future collective realities.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.

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Giving vs. Sharing: The Power of Community in Major Gifts Fundraising

iMarketSmart

This world can become universally altruistic. Consider these benefits in terms of the universal hero story. The universal hero story (monomyth) is the story of enhanced identity. American Political Science Review, 75 (2), 306-318. [6] Giving to potential collaborators was 37% higher than giving to neutrals.) [11]

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. Is there a possibility for ecosocialist revolution at a global scale?