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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

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Understand the requirements for each application and the unique aspects of each foundation and government funder. Finally, starting early and staying organized will help you manage the workload and reduce stress as deadlines approach. Create a schedule with deadlines for each step of the application process.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

The same goes for skills related to group decision-making, managing internal conflict, or holding one another accountable—the most basic democratic practices. Development economist Albert Hirschman described democratic governance as offering voice in return for loyalty. But not all social movements strengthen democracy.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers. 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

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Position Summary The Voter Engagement Coordinator manages community partnerships and conducts direct outreach activities to build capacity for Canal neighborhood and San Rafael Latino residents to register to vote and understand their ballots and government elected official roles.

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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. I take care of everyone,” Chan Shue says. They call me Mother Teresa.”

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

25 This archetype, too, serves a purpose—it suggests that Black women are ill-tempered and need to be shaped and managed. Mike Sosteric, “A Sociology of Archetypes,” PsyArXiv Preprints, January 5, 2021, osf.io/preprints/ —Alicia S. 4 The largest relative turnover and promotion gap was between White women and Black women.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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