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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

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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).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The pandemic also created opportunities for exchange and mutual learning between experts and non-experts as everyone worked to mobilize recourses, develop solutions, and otherwise minimize the devastation by collectively working to prevent the spread of the virus. Outbreak response and policy around outbreak response is our area of expertise.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite these obstacles and in the face of ever-increasing need, the two of us swing on a heavy pendulum between naiveté and boldness and scarcity and abundance, as we experiment with nonprofit community birth center models in two major metropolitan cities.

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