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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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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Christy Gilmour

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

I decided to return home to Chicago, where I worked for a city/county health initiative promoting community health, worked with the YMCA Metro Chicago, where I oversaw strategic planning, and then worked in patient and orthopedic advocacy for a specialty medical association. Tell us about any formal education, certifications, etc.

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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. On any given day, advocates for the unhoused might interact with police, mental health professionals, job training centers, real estate experts, and immigration attorneys.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. So I might say something like what was your experience with education?

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. To us, this looks like improved access to healthcare, housing, and education. “The most important thing about the concept of wealth extraction for me is intentionality…This isn’t a market inefficiency. It’s a strategic choice made by a set of actors.”

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

But I worked on a couple of political campaigns. My background is political science and communication. With your support, we are fighting for health for kids, for equity, for change, for all of us. And you can borrow some of these from this page from World Health. and around the world.

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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.”