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

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Oxford University Press, 2024) by Marshall Ganz. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed.

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Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And when I started in fundraising 12 years ago, we talked a lot about how we could get millennials or in my case, it was young alumni to give back to our university where I was fundraising for. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency. So including it.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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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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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.