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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

Small Business Administration 2022 Woman Small Business Champion of the Year and one of the country’s 50 fastest growing women-led companies by Women’s Presidents Organization and JP Morgan Chase. But I pushed myself, worked really hard doing big projects, developing policies and procedures.” She was named a U.S.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

The unwieldiness of the burden carried by prisoners’ family members, overwhelmingly poor women of color, highlights two urgent policy tasks: making individual restitution to them as victims of the political violence of mass incarceration and developing an adequate public safety net that does not depend on women’s costly invisible labor.

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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.”

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. This reading list covers topics related to each panel, including global threats to democracy, workplace power, capitalism, civic engagement, and more. March 14, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.