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Call for Speakers: 2024 Advocacy Summit in Nashville

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

The Advocacy Summit is on the first day of this two-day event and the second day will consist of our Day on the Hill activities. to collaborate, learn, shape and advance the nonprofit sector for the good of the communities we serve.

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Whether it is fundraising, board development, public policy or leadership development, it is critical that all roles within the sector take an “all-in” approach to building the capacity of the nonprofit sector towards real change and success. Nonprofit staff and volunteer teams can often face burnout due to “wearing many hats”.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

After being publicly ousted from Google in 2020 , Timnit Gebru, a frequent collaborator and co-author with Buolamwini, started the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) , which creates “space for independent, community-rooted AI research.”

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Slavery ensued for the next three centuries and was only abolished on May 13, 1888, through a law titled Lei Áurea (the “Golden Law”) —66 years after Brazil became independent. Only a collaborative approach that unites the public and private sectors and civil society will bring about true equity.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Engaging in ecosystem restoration activities is a direct means for companies to address prior harm inflicted upon ecosystems. Collaborating with local conservation groups, Indigenous communities, and other experts allows companies to craft tailored restoration strategies specifically designed for the ecosystems impacted by their operations.

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

And many of these things—probably starting with the Penobscot River Restoration Project, 1 but stretching back this last decade or two—mark a shift in education and insight and a new form of activism, I think, by us as Wabanaki people. They don’t just happen automatically without some of that Land Back politics, law, policy kind of thing.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. SEPA became the first “social economy” law in Asia to address traditional-market failures and bring social objectives into a broader range of government-supported economic enterprises. 2 Self-sufficiency enterprises predated the crisis.