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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

As philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues in Private Government , people now live most of the time within private authoritarian bureaucracies or firms in which they own nothing, have no authority, and constantly must resist incursions in their private life. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

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53 Second, to create a lower-bound estimate for the intensive reintegrative support that many women provide for family members returning from prison, we can draw on cost estimates associated with providing professional case management for returning prisoners. 56 This burden lands disproportionately on Black women. billion ($40,138,541,763).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

They organized a very interesting shop-in at a store that was owned by the head of the grocery store association. And quite quickly, the head of the grocery store association came out in favor of an increase to the minimum wage. Too often, the Left’s answer is “the government” to those questions. But it’s remarkably consistent.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

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Position Summary The Voter Engagement Coordinator manages community partnerships and conducts direct outreach activities to build capacity for Canal neighborhood and San Rafael Latino residents to register to vote and understand their ballots and government elected official roles.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. Large-scale destruction of the Amazon has reached a record high under Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure, associating him with destruction of the planet. But the question of “we” has always been a fraught one. isn’t a democracy.”.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Association for Black Foundation Executives hosts an annual retreat for Black Women in Philanthropy. Mike Sosteric, “A Sociology of Archetypes,” PsyArXiv Preprints, January 5, 2021, osf.io/preprints/ —Alicia S. 1 Black women can’t catch a break in America, 2 and that includes our experience in the American workplace.

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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. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. 11 (November 2020): 1–12. 1 (January 6, 1912): 1–7. 1 (April 2022).

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