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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

While these aspects are important, I eventually realized it is so much more critical to focus on what you are trying to communicate and how you are communicating it, and contextualizing your pitch within the current narrative(s) of your community, society, and/or the world. A missed comma will be forgiven, I promise!

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s well documented in studies in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and even neuroscience that shaming, blaming, and guilting someone shuts down the center of their brain responsible for learning and growth. I’m committed to making the world a kinder place, for us now and for our children.”

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

Bloomerang

So we have organizations that are completely surprised when they unearth a crypto donor who they know and have talked to but they didn’t know they had crypto, but once they communicated, that they are now able to accept cryptocurrency, they were able to unearth them. They’re not going to launder money for someone, right?

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

So we have organizations that are completely surprised when they unearth a crypto donor who they know and have talked to but they didn’t know they had crypto, but once they communicated, that they are now able to accept cryptocurrency, they were able to unearth them. And so including it in that, and then also social, right?

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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.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Y ou walk through the door, so happy to be able to receive care at a community birth center right in your neighborhood. You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. It is time that community-based midwifery care be recentered in our communities. 11 (November 2020): 1–12.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. per year (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to maintain communications with the prisoner, including visits, telephone calls, and mail.