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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

As the Canadian Medical Association Journal wrote in 2021, “Studies have linked the consumption of bad news to increased distress, anxiety and depression, even when the news in question is relatively mundane.” Climate Feelings and Severe Weather Events High temperatures make loneliness worse—and loneliness makes heat worse.

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Jocelyn Harmon Joins Care2 as Director of Nonprofit Services

Care2

She started her career at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and then led the Development and Communications activities for the National Council of Nonprofits, an association of 22,000 local charities. Jocelyn has a Masters of Arts in Sociology from the University of Washington. ?

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

iMarketSmart

This distinction arises in anthropology and sociology theories.[14] Laura Hansen Dean is Senior Director – Gift Design and Documentation at the University of Texas at Austin. [2] 2] Adapted from conversations with Byron Kennedy, Vice President for University Advancement at Texas Tech University. [3] University of Zurich.

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

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. And that’s really all that most blockchains associated with cryptocurrencies have in them. So I’m admittedly a millennial.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. And that’s really all that most blockchains associated with cryptocurrencies have in them. So I’m admittedly a millennial. And a ledger, right?

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1912, John Whitridge Williams, a professor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States.” 11 (November 2020): 1–12. 1 (January 6, 1912): 1–7. 1 (April 2022).

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” Notes Personal communication from a reader.