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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

This article was adapted from “Activating Loving Awareness through Contemplative Technology” by Sará King, published in Can AI Heal Us? , Love as an act, a presence, a skill, a relational orientation, and an intention to be actively cultivated is not a phenomenon that we can measure holistically in any quantitative sense.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. On any given day, advocates for the unhoused might interact with police, mental health professionals, job training centers, real estate experts, and immigration attorneys.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

Iris Crawford : What led you to climate activism and eventually to Mothers Out Front? So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science. Specifically, the connections between the health impacts in Los Angeles and the high infant mortality rate, specifically for Black women and girls.

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HOW TO: Effectively Manage Hate and Anger on Social Media Sites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

BUT over the last month I have gained a new respect for social media staff that work with nonprofits who tackle controversial issues like reproductive rights and abortion, health care reform, immigration reform, marriage equality, and peace and war. The more people argue with them, the more active they will get on your page.

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Lessons from Campaign 2010: Innovations in Online Fundraising and Organizing from the Mid-term Elections

Care2

Presenters: Teddy Goff: Teddy serves as Associate Vice President for Strategy at Blue State Digital, a digital marketing agency, where he oversees both the account management and creative delivery teams servicing more than 75 active engagements across the globe. Kennedy, Partners In Health, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 29 In the world of work, it means actively challenging the “gig economy.” Lucy Dean Stockton, “Why the Left Needs to Change How It Fights,” interview with Bree Carlson, The Nation , October 5, 2022, thenation.com/article/activism/bree-carlson-interview.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. 6 (July 1991): 1241–99. Sniderman et al., 1 (February 1996): 33–55.