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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. Along with feelings about climate change eroding mental health, climate events can contribute to loneliness.

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Using Psychology in Nonprofit Marketing

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

My college journey went on to start with a major in sociology – the study of human social behavior, a natural fit for someone intrigued by the mind and social society. As nonprofit marketers, we are constantly using the laws of psychology and sociology, sometimes without even realizing it. Thaler and Cass R.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The health consequences of coping with racism-related stress are real and life-shortening. This research suggests that Black women’s bodies are deteriorating as early as their late twenties and early thirties , the age at which White women have their best maternal and infant health outcomes. 31 I hope you caught that.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Unexpected evidence of this comes from demographer Christopher Wildeman’s rigorous investigation of the population-level health consequences of mass incarceration. Wildeman examined the relationship between changes in the national imprisonment rate and changes in American life expectancy, a central indicator of overall population health.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Again, because of the huge variety of possible activities, their financial health depends on what nonprofits are into. If it wasn’t for the global pandemic, social inequality wouldn’t come under such attention because even developed public health systems apparently demonstrated signs of inequality. Target financing.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Stacy Harbaugh

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

It is Midwest Environmental Advocates’ mission to support citizens’ efforts to protect public health and the environment using sound science and the law. Stacy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Ball State University and studied Women’s Studies at Mankato State University. to 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.