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Averting Disaster through Preparation: A Conversation with Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore

NonProfit Quarterly

So, [the] GOAL tool—which was Rebecca’s brainchild—was needed because the people communicating to the public, and even sometimes the people responsible for making decisions or creating policies don’t have a public health background. It’s just about building a better communication environment. It’s incredibly complex.

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Leveraging Email Automation to Enhance Donor Relationships

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To cultivate these relationships, strategic communication is key. She has a passion in communications and is skilled in empowering cross-functional teams to promote positive company culture and attain collective goals. That’s where email automation comes in.

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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

“Fourth-grade soccer teams with phone trees have more effective lines of communication than we do,” they wrote: “Even the largest philanthropies figure out what others are doing through random emailing or searching online. We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Calling out leads to cancel culture; cancel culture is ineffective and divides us further. In today’s culture, calling out means publicly naming a wrong, an infraction, or a mistake; calling in means naming it privately. First, let’s make some distinctions.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” Notes Personal communication from a reader.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

per year (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to maintain communications with the prisoner, including visits, telephone calls, and mail. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. Christopher Wildeman, Jason Schnittker, and Kristin Turney, “Despair by Association?