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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This experience motivated Kahlila to become a youth organizer, helping to establish new Students Deserve chapters across Los Angeles County and to join a campaign to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD). As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event. Use of intersectional frameworks.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. One example is an arts program that is based on the well-established concept that arts participation relieves stress, boosts academic success, and provides healing through self-expression and socioemotional learning.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. It’s a complex tapestry of challenges: Prosperity or poverty, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

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Words to Avoid—2022 Edition

Candid

With that in mind, we’d like to kick off 2022 by actively questioning the use of certain words—and what is meant—so that we can continue to improve by phasing out terms that might be overused, harmful, or inaccurate. Reprinted from Big Duck. A new year brings a commitment to change and improvement for many people.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The proposed work would integrate fundamental changes in programs and policies to transform driver education, active and latent safety measures, and the built environment. Nussbaum’s framework is not a flawless template.

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Tina James​ Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

In some ways, I am motivated by winning, Cyndi—I simply want to win. There were people of color representing a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds—from South Asian to African American. And I think that’s the generative stance—that’s why I started to move beyond race to talking about power.” What was it about the article?