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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. How many seasonal celebrations were deferred, and social connections interrupted or never even made?

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change. ”. 6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. It arises in moments of social tumult, like the one in which we’re living. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics? The second was economics.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits. Are you looking to boost your Nonprofit’s Fundraising? million nonprofit organizations registered by the Internal Revenue Service as of 2016 (data by the National Center for Charitable Statistics ) are one of the largest contributing forces of the US economy with a total 5.5%

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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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