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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Grassroots youth organizing groups—many of which serve immigrant, refugee, Black, and Indigenous communities—can help participants overcome the poverty, racism, institutional injustice, and trauma they often suffer during their childhoods. Use of intersectional frameworks.

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

Bloomerang

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S. There are many challenges that inner-city communities in the United States face when it comes to education.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The UN recently warned that our efforts are insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

Fast forward to my family’s move to Portugal, where my mother was born, then to the United States, where, in 1998, I found a job with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) as an education and outreach coordinator. In the Central Falls/Pawtucket HEZ, nearly a third of residents live in poverty, and one in three are recent immigrants.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Energy and utility justice movements aren’t just imagining versions of this future but also are actively working to build them; yet the formidable power structures of the electric and gas utility system often stand in the way. in California are actively seeking to bring utilities back under public and community control.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. 19 While the need to employ an intersectional lens in movement work is widely acknowledged at a theoretical level, 20 actual movement activity often falls into narrower silos. 14 The story involves many different economic and political factors.