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Using Psychology in Nonprofit Marketing

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

My college journey went on to start with a major in sociology – the study of human social behavior, a natural fit for someone intrigued by the mind and social society. As nonprofit marketers, we are constantly using the laws of psychology and sociology, sometimes without even realizing it.

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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

These approaches fail to enable democracy to work, because democracy is based on the equal value of each person’s voice in making collective decisions about the good of the whole. Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. The actor is adding value in that collaboration by doing what they do better. That does not seem to be a typical background for a CDFI leader.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion”—a figure comparable to the total value of the US’ Black-White racial wealth gap. Valuing and compensating women’s work on behalf of loved ones affected by incarceration will be an especially pivotal task in the coming period of decarceration. Of this figure, roughly $73.9 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,

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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. But if everyone is pitching their own funded work rather than listening and buying into others’ suggestions, then (without first addressing the fierce individualism that is so prevalent within philanthropy) the value of the shared infrastructure will be nil.

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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 stopped going to school to take care of my dad. I take care of everyone,” Chan Shue says. They call me Mother Teresa.”