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Building an Economic Case for Policy Changes

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible public policy journey. But when advocating for policy changes, appealing solely to emotions might not be enough.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. And while unemployment plagues 11.3 Wages reflect the same disparity.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education. Some women offered specific recommendations for supportive services, such as talks on sexual education and violence prevention for young people. The pandemic increased caregiving demands among women, underscoring gender inequity.

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Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership Is Pleased To Announce Recipients for 2nd Annual Heart of Sonoma County™ Awards

Anedot

The 2021 Heart of Sonoma County Awards Were Presented To: Corporate Community Service, Sponsored by CVNL.Anesthesia & Analgesia Medical Group, Inc. Project Coyote is a national organization whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation and coexistence between humans and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy.

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Reimagining Your Career and Life: How Power Up Conference Leaders Can Help You Thrive

Fundraising Leadership

“While there are many transferable skills, moving back into the very different civilian culture — whether in business, education, law, medicine, or elsewhere— means learning new ways of interacting, a new language and new, often covert rules,” says Wilmoth, Executive Dean at UNC School of Nursing, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

After World War II, NAM was joined by the Foundation for Economics Education and the Mount Pelerin Society, named for the community near Geneva, Switzerland, where the group was founded in 1947. That markets work and public policies fail. But the link with religion was not merely metaphorical. It was also strategic.