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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. Last year, Gov. The report highlights four key findings: 1.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead. It also includes presentation slides that community members can use to teach others.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.”

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Great Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: Friday Futures

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Communications Associate , Communications Manager , Online Organizing Intern , Ella Baker Center (San Francisco, CA). Communications Associate , Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Woodacre, CA). Communications Associate , Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage, AK). Social Media Manager , First Book (Washington DC). Kansas City, KS).