# crisis part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover crisis part. Page: Feed: --- ## [Vote and tell others to vote](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/vote-and-tell-others-to-vote) _2026-08-04 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Nonprofits must use their position as trusted messengers ## [Unions, fair wages & nonprofits](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/unions-fair-wages-and-nonprofits) _2026-07-21 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ How do we achieve fair and sustainable compensation for nonprofit workers? ## [How Nigeria did IMF Reforms Without the IMF](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/babangidas-structural-adjustment) _2026-07-19 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ How Babangida "rejected the IMF" but did most of the IMF reforms in an interesting way ## [Unlearning Economic Assumptions](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/unlearning-economic-assumptions) _2026-07-09 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ The Tragedy of the Commons is not a thing ## [Talking about risk leads to better decisions](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/talking-about-risk-leads-to-better) _2026-07-06 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Boards need to expand their view of risk and wrestle with risk tolerance ## [Special Economic Zones Are Not Cheat Codes](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/the-false-promise-of-special-economic) _2026-06-29 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Let's talk about why Special Economic Zones have the success rate of less than a coin flip ## [Ten Reasons for Hope](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-hope) _2026-06-03 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Nonprofits are still the place to be ## [Can an Anti-Corrupt Military Strongman Fix Nigeria? Buhari's Military Rule in the 1980s](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/can-an-anti-corrupt-military-strongman) _2026-06-01 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Nigeria got its anti-corruption crusader in 1984. The economy was collapsing anyway. ## [For-profit Encroachment in the Autism Therapy Space](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/for-profit-encroachment-in-the-autism) _2026-05-26 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Private equity firms expanding provision of health and social services ## [Gambling to Solvency: The Savings & Loans Crisis, Part III](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/gambling-to-solvency-the-savings) _2026-05-24 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ The accounting magic, brokered deposits, and burning condos that cost taxpayers $124 billion ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GB6iL7Vi0ogV) _2026-05-24 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [Printing Naira, Burning Dollars: The 1980s Nigerian Debt Crisis](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/the-1980s-nigerian-debt-crisis) _2026-05-16 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Understanding Nigeria's Finances, Debunking Myths, and Understanding Debt Monetization ## [Why Canada Fell Behind America, Plus labor productivity, my research process, and what I do for a living. (And a thank-you to 6,000 of you!)](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/yaws-6k-q-and-a-whats-going-on-in) _2026-05-10 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ A mailbag Q&A on the productivity gap, plus how I write the African series and what I do for work ## [Nonprofit closures—A few recent examples](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/nonprofit-closuresa-few-recent-examples) _2026-05-01 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Acknowledging and Responding to the Current Crisis, Part 3 ## [Leading during The Shit Show](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/leading-during-the-shit-show) _2026-04-28 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Acknowledging and Responding to the Current Crisis, Part 2 ## [The Shit Show for Nonprofits](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/the-shit-show-for-nonprofits) _2026-04-25 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Acknowledging and Responding to the Current Crisis, Part 1 ## [Our democracy’s immune system is compromised](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/our-democracys-immune-system-is-compromised) _2026-04-23 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ DOJ’s attacks on nonprofits and public institutions resemble an auto-immune disorder ## [Nigeria's Corruption Machine: How the Second Republic Built a System That Could Only Run in One Direction](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/nigerias-corruption-machine-how-the) _2026-04-20 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Can Democracy Work in Nigeria? Let's See Nigeria's Second Attempt ## [The High-Wage Trap: Why Nigeria’s Oil Wealth Killed Its Factories in the late 1970s](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/nigerias-petro-diplomacy-during-the) _2026-03-23 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Nigeria's 1st "Golden Age" had many underlying issues ## [Financial toxicity, time toxicity, and administrative burdens](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/financial-toxicity-time-toxicity) _2026-03-16 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Our systems are taxing the people we aim to serve ## [How the First Five Nuclear Powers Built Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/an-amateurs-understanding-of-nuclear) _2026-03-08 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ Spies, Stolen Blueprints, and the Race for the Ultimate Weapon ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/a4IYxTfok4Ip) _2026-03-08 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [The Making of Nigeria’s Petrostate: Gowon's Post War Years](https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/how-a-war-torn-country-became-a-petrostate) _2026-02-22 · Yaw · Yaw's Brief: Guns, Trade, Cobalt & Africa Beyond Colonialism_ From Civil War Ruin to Petro-State Boom: Nigeria 1970–1976 ## [Potlucks and Revolution](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/potlucks-and-revolution) _2026-02-18 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ How social gatherings and friendships matter to political organizing ## [Why should nonprofits care about private equity?](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/why-should-nonprofits-care-about) _2026-02-14 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Don’t collude with private equity, Part 2 ## [Nonprofits and Government are against greed, right?](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/nonprofits-and-government-are-against) _2026-02-12 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Don’t collude with private equity, Part 1 ## [Reexamining Fundraising](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/reexamining-fundraising) _2026-02-09 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Changing nonprofit demands - Part 4 ## [Reexamining Evaluation](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/reexamining-evaluation) _2026-02-07 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Changing nonprofit demands - Part 3 ## [Reexamining Professionalization](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/reexamining-professionalization) _2026-02-05 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Changing nonprofit demands - Part 2 ## [Reexamining Nonprofit Management Requirements](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/reexamining-nonprofit-management) _2026-02-03 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ Changing nonprofit demands - Part 1 ## [Scalability (and nonscalability) in Nonprofits](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/scalability-and-nonscalability-in) _2026-01-28 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ New Ideas for Nonprofit Leaders ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/r63JvuSYn9J7) _2026-01-28 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Glimpsing the Future: Nonscalability](https://abetternonprofitsector.substack.com/p/glimpsing-the-future-nonscalability) _2026-01-26 · Laura Pierce · Imagining A Better Nonprofit Sector_ New Ideas for Nonprofit Leaders