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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They pressured the company directly, blocking merger deals and forcing executives off the board of cultural institutions, and through their investor base, denying them access to the capital markets. While they bring attention to the problem, they often fail to deliver an alternative solution that lasts.

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Averting Disaster through Preparation: A Conversation with Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore

NonProfit Quarterly

During this time, outbreak preparedness and response and its role in safeguarding health sparked a global dialogue. At the time, our colleagues were talking about the importance of building trust with the public and the erosion of trust in public health, there are experts doing great work on that. Mackenzie S.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Unexpected evidence of this comes from demographer Christopher Wildeman’s rigorous investigation of the population-level health consequences of mass incarceration. Wildeman examined the relationship between changes in the national imprisonment rate and changes in American life expectancy, a central indicator of overall population health.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

14 He posited that there are universal patterns expressed in images and present in the collective unconscious of all humans across all cultures. The health consequences of coping with racism-related stress are real and life-shortening. 7 One study respondent said, “[Black women] are not doing well.” 31 I hope you caught that.

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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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