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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. Share your drafts to get constructive feedback.

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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. The midwife, well known as a healer in Black communities, came to the house and “caught the baby.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers. 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,