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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While it’s never the intended outcome of those initiating “stop energy” efforts (a term first coined by Dave Winer to describe a common experience in technology development), initiatives that only organize around the “stop” often end with that stage. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Stacy Harbaugh

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Stacy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Ball State University and studied Women’s Studies at Mankato State University. – Combat the afternoon energy slump by scheduling all “right brain” activities for this time slot. to 4:00 p.m. This is my favorite time for creative or collaborative work.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

Thus, despite their energy and commitment, sooner or later their power is crippled by what feminist sociologist Jo Freeman called the “tyranny of structurelessness.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64. She argues that there is no such thing as an entirely “structureless group.” So why don’t we build one?

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. isn’t a democracy.”.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.

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Calling People Forward Instead of Out: Ten Essential Steps

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s well documented in studies in the fields of psychology, anthropology, sociology, and even neuroscience that shaming, blaming, and guilting someone shuts down the center of their brain responsible for learning and growth. The problem with either approach is that both typically get infused with shame, blame, and guilt.

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

Fundraising Leadership

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 believes vegetarian females like Lucy are smaller because they had to conserve their food energy for pregnancy, birth, and suckling. Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror?