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lavav.bsky.social
PhD. candidate and Introduction to Nonprofits instructor at the University of Oklahoma.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, 2025: 🤔😬 🇺🇸 💀

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

If any of my followers (or people you know) have worked the polls for US elections and are willing to be interviewed or surveyed, please send me a message. This is for work on my dissertation. Thanks in advance!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sad to hear of the passing of Ryan Kiesel. We lost a champion for human rights.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Make up your mind, Oklahoma.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently, I'm not the only one enjoying this beautiful weather.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

My DEI money will be spent in DEI spaces.

submitted 37 days ago • 491 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 41 days ago • 173 comments

My classes doubled in size compared to last semester. I am excited to see more interest in nonprofits as a career.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Shamelessly stolen:

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Today was an office dog kind of day.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

The idea that a nonprofit mission - which exists in the nonprofit sector *because* it is not economically viable - should be sustainable is silly. Nonprofits divert lots of resources explaining how they will *solve* problems that no-one really believes are solvable, but can still be usefully treated

submitted 63 days ago • 27 comments

People have asked why I would quit a "good job" and start a PhD. program at 50. This is why:

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to the panelists and the discussant at #ARNOVA2024 for the great "Volunteering and the Public Good" presentations.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A professor of nonprofit management & policy explains how HR 9495 is part of a strategy to preempt opposition to GOP policies & encourage self-censorship. 45 will have narrow majorities in both chambers, so a similar bill could come across his desk after being reintroduced in the next Congress.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Kudos to the #ARNOVA2024 planners for an excellent conference. See you next year!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

The non-profit shutdown bill is getting another run from the House this week. Scheduled to go before the House Rules Committee today, likely for a floor vote on Wednesday. Make sure your reps know exactly how dangerous this is.

submitted 106 days ago • 18 comments