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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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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019), 32. 11 (2022):12351–58.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

Having one (or more) active and highly functioning advisory committees fosters resilience, creativity, and even resource development for your organization. In this case, you might look towards people who have experience either with the legislative process or with advancing public policy through coalition building, for example.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

You can reward mutuality by supporting alternative enterprises, community land trusts, worker co-ops, and other solidarity economy activities—and through supporting community labor organizing to assert workers’ rights. And there are lots of bad ideas that become public policy because they’re tied to power.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

Their foremost philanthropic priority is to contribute to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual welfare of children and youth by aiding progress in the field of child welfare through dissemination of knowledge about research, studies, surveys, projects, or by supporting programs and activities benefiting the welfare of children and youth.

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

Bloomerang

The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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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.