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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Such considerations can be symbiotic, benefitting both the environment and individuals’ psychological wellbeing.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. If we don’t have public transit, we take an Uber. This book is a supplement to that kind of thinking.

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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. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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How emotion can guide us to rational behavior

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

David Brooks has a new book out called the Social Animal which points to the same reality: Showing emotion is the foundation for reason in guiding behavior. Side note: One of my all-time favorite books is the psychology classic The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson. “But the fundamental problem was the lack of social trust.&#

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, 28 (2), 164-184; Küchler, L., Psychology & Marketing, 21 (8), 613-635; Taniguchi, H., & Marshall, G. The effects of social trust and institutional trust on formal volunteering and charitable giving in Japan. Policy Press. Social Influence, 6 (4), 249-258. [12]

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Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

Executives in professional social justice institutions, grassroots activists in local movements, and fiery young radicals on protest lines are all advancing urgent concerns about the internal workings of progressive spaces. Movements on the Left are driven by the same political and social contradictions we strive to overcome.

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Turk Wars: How AI Threatens the Workers Who Fuel It

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Although tech companies tend to obscure the fact, and the public rarely realizes it, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are not the purely automated processes tech companies claim they are, but rather the product of human work. The tasks data workers perform can also be psychologically scarring. In the U.S.,