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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.

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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. Women in law enforcement in the U.S. “ Women in #law #enforcement in the U.S.

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How to Lower the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Your Supporters Donate Major Gifts of Assets

iMarketSmart

I was fresh out of law school. I needed to learn their story, their values. This distinction arises in anthropology and sociology theories.[14] Visual planned giving in color: An introduction to the law & taxation of charitable gift planning. The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150–169. [14] Money is anti-social.

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In This Together: The Power of a Movement

Fundraising Leadership

Dukes’ contentions were seconded by her co-panelist, Northwestern University sociology professor Aldon Morris, who observed that Coretta Scott King was “more militant than MLK — not just a chandelier hanging on his arm.” Organizing is in our DNA,” she said. Sound familiar? So very true.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

She is ambitious and has her mind set on parlaying her law degree into a White House career. When faced with conflict, she calls the authorities or invokes the law to solve problems that don’t require that level of escalation. Mike Sosteric, “A Sociology of Archetypes,” PsyArXiv Preprints, January 5, 2021, osf.io/preprints/

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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 They must be radically remade.

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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. The rules governing the attraction of wealth to wealth are not laws of nature, nor are they immutable. billion paid to more than 123,000 Indigenous people.