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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. The Commons experiment underscored the cultural barriers within the field of philanthropy that hamper the prospect for coordination within the sector. Vulnerability Begets Trust, Which Enables Collaboration. Donors are no different.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

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Canal Alliance strives for a trauma-informed approach and inclusive culture. Requirements Knowledge of Latino, immigrant, or low-income communities in Marin County Associate or Bachelor’s degree in social justice, social work, sociology, public policy, other related fields, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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Recapping & Reflecting: How to Learn from Nonprofit Mistakes

Fundraising Coach

Keep the following tips in mind to leverage your internal culture, software solutions , and training resources to help your team learn from its mistakes and move forward productively. Make risk-taking a normal part of your team’s culture. Surveys have shown that adults in the U.S. overwhelmingly prefer playing it safe to taking risks.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

Calling out leads to cancel culture; cancel culture is ineffective and divides us further. In today’s culture, calling out means publicly naming a wrong, an infraction, or a mistake; calling in means naming it privately. First, let’s make some distinctions.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Today, we face racially redlined access to midwifery that reflects our nation’s deeply racist political, economic, and cultural history. Obstetrics is the dominant maternal health practice, while cultural narratives overshadow the Black herstory of midwifery with one that is white, wealthy, and/or alternative/“crunchy.”.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. isn’t a democracy.”. The full quote is “Ever Ever failed. Fail again.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

So, how do we create in this economic space co-ops, community land trusts, collaborations of co-ops? Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” One is the formation of alternatives. That’s one North Star.