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Is There An Inequality Tipping Point for Nonprofits?

Blue Avocado

But as climate change is manmade, it may have not just ecological but also sociological tipping points. At the same time, worsening heat and weather will mean that the nonprofit sector is more needed than ever: The impact of climate change will cause widespread suffering that only government and nonprofit action can address.

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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Understand the requirements for each application and the unique aspects of each foundation and government funder. D in sociology: He had added language and statistics that we wouldn’t have thought to use in the sections covering our need for the grant, what populations would be served, and how we planned to measure outcomes.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

As philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues in Private Government , people now live most of the time within private authoritarian bureaucracies or firms in which they own nothing, have no authority, and constantly must resist incursions in their private life. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

Anedot

Position Summary The Voter Engagement Coordinator manages community partnerships and conducts direct outreach activities to build capacity for Canal neighborhood and San Rafael Latino residents to register to vote and understand their ballots and government elected official roles.

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

Fundraising Leadership

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. City Safe provides armed and unarmed security professionals to protect government, residental and commercial sites.

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Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

NonProfit Quarterly

David Horton Smith, a leading researcher of AVOs and emeritus professor of Sociology at Boston College, prefers the term “grassroots association” and proposes this definition : locally based, significantly autonomous, volunteer-run, formal nonprofit (i.e., But informal hierarchies may be the dominant—if inexplicit—system in place. (Of

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

Also, one of the things you talk about concerns the limits of government and how just having the state be the solution isn’t always the best course. Too often, the Left’s answer is “the government” to those questions. So, just saying the government is going to take care of it, we think, rings a little bit hollow.