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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

It is important for the public to know that novel approaches to healing are receiving support from some of the highest institutions of science and medicine, and we must always ensure that current and future generations of scientists know that this kind of work is valuable and will be funded.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. Regarding deaths during the Middle Passage, see Steven Mintz, “The Middle Passage,” Digital History, University of Houston, 2016, www. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021; original work published 1983). smtid=2&psid=446.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science. I began to see and understand how certain unjust systems are incentivized and can target ratepayers in [already marginalized] communities in various ways. I realized that I wanted to be an organizer for life.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

12 The proposals were not necessarily new; the Green New Deal has been an embattled political talking point since at least the early 2000s, 13 claimed by major political parties and articulated within opinion columns. Cohen and Aronoff’s perspectives on climate politics counter the paralytic defeatism of the U.S. quienes-somos/.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “ The Universe Delivers” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Corporate capture is visible too in the names adorning the walls of nonprofit university and hospital buildings.