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

Bloomerang

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. 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.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. 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.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. trillion”—a figure comparable to the total value of the US’ Black-White racial wealth gap.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

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. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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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. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Let’s look at the private path first.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? So that was one path that was available. The second was economics.