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Recapping & Reflecting: How to Learn from Nonprofit Mistakes

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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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Leveraging Email Automation to Enhance Donor Relationships

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She has a passion in communications and is skilled in empowering cross-functional teams to promote positive company culture and attain collective goals. Caitlin has a Bachelors in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of St.

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How to make sure the experience you deliver to donors makes their giving feel worthwhile

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The Sociological Review, 35 (1), 150-169. [3] 5] The “pie supper” charity auction was popular in 19th and early 20th century Ozark Mountain culture. 5] The “pie supper” charity auction was popular in 19th and early 20th century Ozark Mountain culture. University of Oklahoma Press. [6] Time-inconsistent charitable giving.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

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Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Johanson, founder of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, led this trip, along with the current director of the Institute, Yohannes Haile-Selassie. Come on, admit it.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1912, John Whitridge Williams, a professor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” Notes Personal communication from a reader.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015). 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics?