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The Summer 2020 edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly is here!

 
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DESIGNING FOR A NEW WORLD

2020 has been a year of societal upheaval so massive it is like a rent in the universe. Add together the slow grind of the effects of systemic racism, with the lens focused by the rapid spread and response to COVID-19, and the ongoing murders of Black people at the hands of the police—and a tipping point has been reached. It is time for a redesign. The nonprofit sector replicates the racial dynamics in the rest of society; this special edition of the Nonprofit Quarterly focuses on shifting the lens through which the sector must understand its work.

 

 

A few Summer 2020 issue highlights:

Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice
Currently, arrangements of power and authority, and media, and daily life, are conglomerating at unprecedented rates, necessitating that we find new arrangements for confronting such power—creating opportunities to explore, experience, and design the future/s we want. This article, adapted from a book published this year, makes the case that uninspected daily arrangements are a rich and undertapped terrain for social change.
by Design Studio for Social Intervention (Lori Lobenstine, Kenneth Bailey, and Ayako Maruyama)

The Nonprofit Sector as White Space
The concept of white space has crossed over from Black space into the public conversation about race in the U.S. But many are using a white space approach to racial justice, including nonprofit leaders.
by Cyndi Suarez

Changing Our Narrative about Narrative: The Infrastructure Required for Building Narrative Power
In this essay, originally written for the Haas Institute’s Blueprint for Belonging project, Rashad Robinson, president of Color Of Change, asks, “Are we happy? Are we happy with how we’re doing narrative right now and the results we’re getting, and are we willing to keep on doing the same?” The question is, of course, rhetorical. “Narrative builds power for people,” he reminds us, “or it is not useful at all.”
by Rashad Robinson

And many more...

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