Funder-Intermediary Relationships: Promise & Pitfalls

A growing body of work is being undertaken by foundations with the help of intermediary organizations. For a funder, working with an intermediary has the potential to greatly enhance the funder's impact with their constituents, bringing needed expertise, skills, connections, infrastructure, and objectivity. For an intermediary, working with a funder can expand impact and reach, provide a financial base, and increase visibility and credibility. Win - win, right? Well, these relationships can also be difficult to manage for both the funder and the intermediary, and in the worst case, contribute to ineffectiveness of the joint work. Fieldstone Alliance hoped to learn more about critical success factors that lead to positive, mutually beneficial relationships between funders and intermediaries. An online survey was used to gather experiences from both funders and intermediaries. These success factors could then be used by both funders and intermediaries as a guide when developing contracts or grants, and as a tool to manage the ongoing work of the partnership. The following report includes highlights from the survey

‘New and important careers …’ How women excelled at the BBC, 1923-1939

From its earliest days in 1923 the BBC employed a sizeable female workforce. The majority were in support roles as typists, secretaries and clerks but a significant number rose to positions of importance and authority. As a new industry, the BBC took a largely progressive approach towards the ‘career women’ on its staff, many of whom held jobs that were developed specifically for the new medium of broadcasting. This article considers how and why they were able to make their mark. Three women attained Director status: Hilda Matheson headed the Talks Department; Mary Somerville the School Broadcasting Department and Isa Benzie the Foreign Department. Others like Mary Hope Allen, Mary Adams, Margery Wace, Janet Quigley and Olive Shapley were programme makers who carved out areas of expertise in drama, science, women’s talks and social documentary. Women also held significant posts in the press office and the photographic library; on The Listener and Radio Times; as accompanists and education officers. Sexual discrimination was endemic in the interwar years and unequal pay, poor promotion prospects and marriage bars were rife. But for the BBC’s professional women, it was subtle and largely hidden and this article considers also how it was addressed

James Petiver’s ‘Kind Friends’ and ‘Curious Persons’ in the Atlantic World: Commerce, Colonialism and Collecting

In 1695, James Petiver concluded the first ‘century’ of his Musei Petiveriani by observing that he had received the specimens described within it from his ‘Kind Friends from divers parts of the World’ and ‘Curious Persons…Abroad’. This essay examines Petiver’s network of such ‘Kind Friends’ and ‘Curious Persons’ in the Atlantic World. The composition of Petiver’s network reflected many of the broader patterns of English commerce in the Atlantic at the turn of the eighteenth century. Moreover, England’s growing overseas empire and its expanding commercial activity required a parallel expansion in maritime labour. Mariners were correspondingly central to Petiver’s work as a naturalist and collector in the region. The importance of slavery and the slave trade to Atlantic economic and social structures meant that the naturalist relied on the institutions, infrastructures and individuals of the slave trade and plantation slavery. A social history of Petiver’s Atlantic network reveals how the naturalist utilized the routes of commerce and colonialism to collect specimens, as well as to collect the correspondents who might provide them from West Africa, Spanish America, the Caribbean and mainland North America. It demonstrates the entangled histories of commerce, colonialism, collecting and the production of natural knowledge

Representations of health and wellness in children\u27s literature

The term health is multifaceted. Health can refer to one’s physical, spiritual, or mental state, among other things. The goal of this study was to determine how educators can use children’s literature to support students being introduced to healthy habits regarding these aspects at a young age, through children’s literature. A content analysis was conducted over a selection of 16 children’s literature texts. It was organized by thematic categories matching the aforementioned facets of health and assessed through a Likert scale. This analysis resulted in the development of a website intended to serve as a tool for teachers to implement literacy-integrated health education in the classroom. Major themes that were found in this study were the seemingly higher number of books available in physical health than compared to books available in spiritual and mental health, the lack of diversity within the books selected, and the need for nonfiction books regarding mental and spiritual health. The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze children’s literature that addresses aspects of health and wellness. It is important to teach health literacy through children’s literature to ensure better prolonged health benefits across the spectrum—physical, mental, spiritual, etc

Introduction: Strategic uses of politeness formulae. Analytical approaches and theoretical accounts

This essay introduces the special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, co-edited by Beeching and Murphy, entitled Doing (mock) im/politeness

Nameless Heroines

A collection of five short stories

Understanding the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Opportunity Youth

Opportunity youth are young people ages 16 to 24 who are neither working nor enrolled in school. Disconnection from school and work during emerging adulthood can have long-term, negative consequences for the well-being of young people, including lower educational attainment and earnings. Most research examining the consequences of disconnection has focused on young people's education and employment outcomes, resulting in a limited understanding of how disconnection affects development in other domains, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). In particular, there are no studies on the SRH outcomes of opportunity youth in the United States based on nationally representative samples.We addressed the gap in information about the SRH of opportunity youth by conducting an original analysis of data from the 2011-2019 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), the findings from which are presented in this brief. Our analysis focused on:* The demographic characteristics of opportunity youth* The social determinants of health (factors that can influence both disconnection and SRH) for opportunity youth* SRH behaviors and outcomes of opportunity yout

Book Review: Gender and Early Television. Mapping Women's Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950

Sarah Arnold, Gender and Early Television. Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-1950. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021; 304pp: ISBN, 9781780769769 price (£85.00), ISBN 000, epub, ISBN, 9781786726100 (£76.50) Reviewed by: Kate Murphy, Bournemouth University, U