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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Understand the requirements for each application and the unique aspects of each foundation and government funder. D in sociology: He had added language and statistics that we wouldn’t have thought to use in the sections covering our need for the grant, what populations would be served, and how we planned to measure outcomes. .”

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Also, one of the things you talk about concerns the limits of government and how just having the state be the solution isn’t always the best course. Too often, the Left’s answer is “the government” to those questions. So, just saying the government is going to take care of it, we think, rings a little bit hollow.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

The health care costs and lost productivity precipitated by a typical cardiovascular event are estimated at $213,333. The average economic burden associated with a major depression event, including both health care costs and productivity losses, is $82,157 (converted by the author to inflation-adjusted US dollars). 2 (2012): 216–43.

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Averting Disaster through Preparation: A Conversation with Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore

NonProfit Quarterly

We have chapters on epidemiology, governance, communicating with the public, community engagement, and humanitarian response, among others. And there’s a lot of people saying that their way or their product is the best solution out there, but people should check if something is FDA-approved. Folks don’t know what questions to ask.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. If we do not currently have a global proletariat ready to seize the means of ecological production, then we need a transition. But the question of “we” has always been a fraught one. billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity.”

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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. 11 (November 2020): 1–12. 1 (January 6, 1912): 1–7.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

A government can’t just come in and decide to print more like the U.S. government might decide to print more U.S. or to the whims of that central ledger holder be it a bank or a central bank or a government. So there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins that are sort of minted or produced by the protocol.