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How MacKenzie Scott Is Giving Her Money Away

NonProfit Quarterly

The giving has become more consistent across the categories of recipients, though the individual gift sizes decreased substantially in 2023. ( The total giving to date has been consistent with four priorities outlined by Scott in establishing the fund: Education, Equity & Justice, Economic Security & Opportunity, and Health.

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Improving AAPI Health with Better Data

NonProfit Quarterly

Having worked in numerous healthcare and health-justice spaces, I’m well aware of the importance of being able to self-identify. That’s especially true regarding data collection, which tends to flatten complex social groups into simple categories. We can note whatever categorization feels right to you.” “Oh!” I shrugged.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

Black working-class people share an interest in the reputational damage Black people suffer because of racism, but their interests diverge in terms of, say, the actual healthcare system’s structure. KA: Yes, who has the power to define social problems is critical—as are debates about the categories used to understand them.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

In this conversation between Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Isabelle Leighton, executive director of Donors of Color Network and former founding director of Equality Fund, the two leaders discuss how to move the philanthropic sector toward racial and social justice. Does it come up? IL: Yes, it does.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

Many of us who are privileged enough to be paid to work for justice had all but given up on winning unions at multinational brands in the near term. At Jobs With Justice, we assert that power is organized people and organized money with the ability to control, create, and/ or prevent some change. We were asleep. Simple enough.

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Fair Wages Come to Washington DC

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizations dedicated to racial and economic justice have long focused on abolishing the tipped minimum wage as a strategy to close the racial wealth gap. Take healthcare: 15 percent of white men surveyed stated that their employer contributes to health insurance, compared to only 8 percent of Black women. Intentional Inequality.

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Winning Leadership: Take The Lead’s Award-Winners To Shine At Power Up Conference

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In May of 2023, Angel City Football Club was named Sports Team of the Year by SBJ and was the first women's team ever to win the category. “ Read more in take The Lead on Kathleen Turner Ivins, who passed in 2007, was a celebrated social justice journalist, award-winning columnist and author.