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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

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. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Let’s look at the private path first.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. Eric Nee, editor in chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review , will moderate what is sure to be an inspiring and spirited discussion. Subscribe to SSIR here.)

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Reflecting on Equity: What Does It Mean to Love ‘All’?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Doug Hattaway In a special supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review, the policy research and advocacy organization PolicyLink issues a call to action for people interested in realizing the unfulfilled promise of our democracy as one where all can thrive. Were going to be forgotten. All of us hurt, one person offered.