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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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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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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion”—a figure comparable to the total value of the US’ Black-White racial wealth gap. Valuing and compensating women’s work on behalf of loved ones affected by incarceration will be an especially pivotal task in the coming period of decarceration. Of this figure, roughly $73.9

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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. Toya Nash Randall (New Orleans, LA: Voice. Fordham, s.v.

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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. 41 Midwifery care is high-quality, value-based care that saves lives and money. 55 Historically and traditionally in Black communities, lived experience is valued.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So that was the value of all the Bitcoin that’s out in the world that has been minted, which means had been created by the protocol. And Bitcoin really wasn’t worth anything because for something to be worth something you’d have to be able to exchange it for something else that has accepted value. trillion.