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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, innovative health products have caused BIPOC and other vulnerable groups harm—such as pulse oximeters that fail to accurately detect blood oxygen levels in people with darker skin tones and AI tools that make decisions that systematically disadvantage certain groups of people.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

Instead, they serve as partners in your work, representing the community you serve and even boosting the productivity of your workforce. Appropriately using your advisory committee’s expertise means that when you are creating your advisory committee, you should consider what new resource/s or product/s your organization is putting together.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

As businesses grow internationally, another challenge is adjusting to different cultural norms and work styles. Although English is the most common language in international business, knowing other languages can be a big advantage when collaborating with clients or coworkers from around the world.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is the attitudes and skills that enable individuals to use their competencies and become more productive and efficient. It is also about gender, race, and prejudices across society. Ethnic Markers and Crisis Impact Racial distinction speaks loud and clear to most of the Black population in Brazil.

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Uprooting Oppressive Values in Social Change Work through Emotional Intelligence

NonProfit Quarterly

When we are working and leading within social change organizations, that means building organizational culture and structures that prioritize below-the-surface work. While these internal rifts focus mostly on race and gender, there is also a generational divide at play, making challenges even more complicated to make sense of and discuss.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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Calling Out, Calling In, and Calling Upon One Another

Stanford Social Innovation Review

He knew he wanted to change the perception of Momentum for Health as a primarily white-serving organization and increase cultural competency across its team of providers, but he didn’t know where to begin. Ballard began reaching out to other nonprofit leaders, asking how they thought about centering race and equity.