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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. Seventy-five years ago, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, we were entering a period of growing affluence, conditions favorable to a sense of generosity toward the needs and rights of others.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Oxford University Press, 2024) by Marshall Ganz. Development economist Albert Hirschman described democratic governance as offering voice in return for loyalty.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. 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. So, please elaborate on that a little bit.

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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. Philanthropy Needs to Stop Its Toxic Intellectualizing. March 16, 2023 at 9:05 a.m. How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy?

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” —Alicia S.

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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. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. 11 (November 2020): 1–12. 1 (January 6, 1912): 1–7.

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