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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

The central thesis I operate with is that the more we learn to love ourselves and to express this love in our relationships with one another, the greater the health, vitality, authentic care, and wellbeing we will all experience. A central aspect of cultivating this love I am speaking of—in the way that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures. In each of these scenarios, promoting public well-being requires reaching out across social boundaries.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science. However, no matter how progressive the space was, there was always a layer of sexism, racism, and ageism embedded in the culture. But an older Black man might, on a cultural level, understand. I realized that I wanted to be an organizer for life.

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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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Lessons from Campaign 2010: Innovations in Online Fundraising and Organizing from the Mid-term Elections

Care2

BSD's portfolio of clients includes nonprofits like the American Red Cross; political and advocacy campaigns, most famously President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign; cultural and academic institutions like Harvard University; and brands and businesses like Microsoft. Eric Rardin: Eric is the Director of Nonprofit Services, for Care2.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

That is why capital does not take into consideration the health or the length of life of the worker, unless society forces it to do so.” Cohen and Aronoff’s perspectives on climate politics counter the paralytic defeatism of the U.S. political machine with the optimistic energy of organizing climate coalitions. Fail again.