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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. As a result, the company effectively defaulted on over a billion dollars in debt earlier this year and its future seemed bleak.

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

Anedot

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

NonProfit Quarterly

MSM: It’s a complicated issue, and I think it speaks to what we were saying about how important communication and engagement is and bringing in fields like sociology and anthropology. Different communities are made up of people with different occupations, different religions and different cultural practices that could put people at risk.

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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. Community Building Is Prerequisite to Shared Philanthropic Infrastructure.

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Housing Rights Organizer

Anedot

Canal Alliance strives for a trauma-informed approach and inclusive culture. Every day, we work to educate, empower and support motivated immigrants to better meet their needs—from feeding their families and advancing their education, to learning English and becoming American citizens.

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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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