NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. The nonprofit sponsors monthly and annual meetups with free food, snacks, and games. Awaiting them was hot chocolate, tea, food, and connections.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

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. You must invite people ahead of time, prepare the menu and food, and set the table. You prepare the space.

Sociology 104

Sociology Culture Activism Values 104

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? My iPad drew a small crowd of adults and children alike as I stepped out of my tent with it on the banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia. Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror?

Leadership 52

Leadership Sociology Culture Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. 11 (November 2020): 1–12.

Health 119

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. 2 (2012): 216–43.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 122

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash+ In May 2024, demand for food pantries in the Chicago area reportedly had risen 26 percent , a year after food stamp benefits had been cut nationally by an average of $328 per family of four. The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2

Public and Social Policy 89

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Sociology 89