#MeToo
From Righteous Rage to Healing, #MeToo Founder Reflects on an Earthshaking Year
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One of the movements at the center of rising civil society takes stock.
storytelling
Can Study Circles Build Support for Solutions across Class and Racial Divides?
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In Sacramento, a local public radio station partners with 12 community groups to cohost six Study Circle discussions that foster conversation regarding affordable housing across racial and class divides.
Gun Control
You Say You Want a Revolution? How We Might Think about Guns and Social Movements
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How do you build a moment into a movement? While movements can flourish for idiosyncratic reasons, past social movements offer us some useful guideposts.
Nonprofit Management
Communications as the New Nonprofit Core Competency
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Today, NPQ announces an exciting new partnership with the FrameWorks Institute to illuminate the art and science of framing contested social issues in public discourse.
Nonprofit Management
Fishermen’s Alliance Pursues Nonprofit Innovation through Art
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Cape Cod’s Fishermen’s Alliance seeks an artist-in-residence to help make their tagline—“Small Boats. Big Ideas”—come to life.
patronizing images
New Study Suggests Impulse Giving Goes to Beautiful Recipients, Not Needy Ones
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Since when are beauty and neediness mutually exclusive? It is a strange choice point that only the most dysfunctional make in their day-to-day relationships.
Nonprofit News
Doris Buffett Seeks Volunteers to Help Her Give Money to Worthy Poor
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Just when you think that the notion of the worthy vs. unworthy poor has passed out of our lexicon—here it comes again!
Nonprofit Management
Impacting the Root Causes of Poverty: Honor and Trespass Boundaries as Love and Justice Demand
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Voice from the Field:
This reflection serves as a companion to last week’s “The Power of Inquiry,” featuring Betsy Santiago-Layne. Betsy described the power of action research on her life as a mother who had to make use of the shelter system. Here, Donna Haig Freeman describes the university-based program that involved Betsy and others in researching the problems they had experienced and the many impacts that remarkable program had.
Nonprofit News
Nonprofit Technology: StoryCorps App Archives Human History through Storytelling
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A new app gives anyone with a mobile device the power to make history through storytelling.
executive directors
Want Good Governance? Teach Hard Skills in Nonprofit Advocacy
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A recent advocacy training for nonprofits in Connecticut included workshops on everything from “understanding the legislative process 101” to deconstructing state budgets.