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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

This component provides a process for delving deeply into one’s own life experiences and peeling back the layers to uncover the complex dynamics—specifically of race and diversity—that shape our perspectives. Civil society leaders must grapple with complex challenges rooted in social inequality, systemic biases, and cultural divides.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Rest inequality refers to the gap in the quality, duration, and amount of rest people get depending on their status in Western culture. Researchers have found that the duration, quality, and frequency of rest in general and sleep in particular are shaped by income level, housing conditions, employment status, type of work, and race.

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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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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

We need physical, social, cultural, and mental space to understand what it means to live at this complicated and wondrous intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality that is Black bisexuality+ on our own terms and within value systems that give our experience meaning, our lives purpose, and our realities affirmation.

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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Rather they can shape selection criteria such as majors, GPA, financial need, geography and extra-curricular activities. Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous. Fortunately, fundraisers are not without strong resources and guidance.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Early on, the community established itself enough to have its own cultural center, known as Cambodia Town. Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. But so too is the creative spirit. Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge made everything much worse.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

In terms of subjects and activities being supported, arts and culture rose to the top of the list, followed by philanthropic and nonprofit management, community and economic development, and education. . An analysis of organizations and projects funded against Candid’s Philanthropy Classification System validates her statement. .