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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yermine Richardson/ www.popcaribe.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.” 4 The largest relative turnover and promotion gap was between White women and Black women.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. The midwife, well known as a healer in Black communities, came to the house and “caught the baby.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality.