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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. Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. What level would that be?

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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.

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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.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Whether they generate taxable profits or not, depends on whether their activity coincides within the government-approved purpose, such as: Scientific research and development, Education, Consulting, Humanitarian aid, Socially oriented advertising, Human rights protection, Political activity, and not only. Donations and Government Grants.

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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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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Elizabeth Linos, Sanaz Mobasseri, and Nina Roussille, “Asymmetric Peer Effects at Work: The Effect of White Coworkers on Black Women’s Careers” (HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-031, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston, MA, November 2023), 16–17. —Alicia S. preprints/ psyarxiv/mn7b6.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Large-scale public investment from all levels of government is needed to further implement and evaluate these strategies. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. Council on State Governments, Confined and Costly. 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,