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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Creating partnerships: Closing the gender pay gap by challenging the status quo together 

Candid

Three key factors include a lack of strong work-family policies, occupational segregation, and gender discrimination. Furthermore, gender- and race-based biases continue to shape how many view women’s roles and relegate women to lower pay and less financial security. There are many interconnected forces driving these disparities.

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DEI Under Attack: A Conversation with Paulette Granberry Russell

NonProfit Quarterly

Granberry Russell not only elucidates the potential harm these measures can inflict on higher education but also calls out what she characterizes as a dangerous stifling and resulting silence among leaders in higher education whose responsibilities, she argues, include speaking out against anti-DEI efforts and making public the harm they carry.

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Calling Out, Calling In, and Calling Upon One Another

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Momentum for Health now uses data to analyze leadership composition by race and to inform its hiring, recruiting, and [retention] practices. “I Ballard began reaching out to other nonprofit leaders, asking how they thought about centering race and equity. Where is the playbook?” she asked, but nobody seemed to know.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities. The digital economy thus has not only failed to deliver, but has exploited racial/ethnic, gender, and geopolitical hierarchies in the process. However, current reality is miles apart from that vision.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. I was suffocating. Creating space to breathe freely.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

Many of us who work tirelessly to address social problems and improve the quality of life for communities do so without much consideration of the toll our work takes on our ability to rest. Creating and sustaining social justice movements and/or work in the field of care requires intense dedication and commitment that can cause burnout.