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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.

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5 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Behavioral Science to Raise More Money Online

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Behavioral Science relates to the interactions and activities of human beings. The field observes and analyzes human relationships through behavioral aspects including geography, biology, law, psychiatry, and political science. 5 Tips for Using Behavioral Science. for Online Fundraising.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. “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.” 4 The term racial capitalism was popularized by Cedric J.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And then if you’re getting into a debate, you know, these techniques that I’m going to talk about today can range from any form from your nonprofit to your religious organization, to your mom’s group, to your friend group, and even to a debate, political science. . The next is contributing something of value.

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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. I began to see and understand how certain unjust systems are incentivized and can target ratepayers in [already marginalized] communities in various ways. 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

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

12 The proposals were not necessarily new; the Green New Deal has been an embattled political talking point since at least the early 2000s, 13 claimed by major political parties and articulated within opinion columns. Cohen and Aronoff’s perspectives on climate politics counter the paralytic defeatism of the U.S.