2023

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Improving AAPI Health with Better Data

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Urja Bhatt on unsplash.com Recently, a colleague asked me to identify my race. Presented with the standard options for race (White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian), I’ve always selected Asian. Currently, the AAPI community represents 5.7 Asian,” I said automatically.

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. 1] In spite of the salience of race in the experience of leadership, there is not much study of the Black leadership experience. Image Credit: Van3ssa ? A somewhat different perspective.is

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ian Nicole Reambonanza on Unsplash This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). How does a refugee community organize itself?

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

It is estimated Black and Latinx communities will account for more than 40 percent of Americans with dementia by 2030. It is estimated Black and Latinx communities will account for more than 40 percent of Americans with dementia by 2030. 1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. What is dementia?

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Raychan on Unsplash This article introduces a new NPQ series, titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). And the challenges go beyond housing.

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Indigenous Land Return as Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

The term, more commonly known as “land back,” acknowledges how colonization contributed to the theft and plunder of Indigenous land and communities—and has grown into an effort to help reclaim stolen lands. In recent years, the land back movement has grown to include many Indigenous land trusts. It was quite interesting for.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Veronica Terriquez & Kahlila Williams It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. Over the past decade, the words of Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur have echoed across California, as a chant by many grassroots youth organizing groups.