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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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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

I recognize the systemic injustices and disparities faced and seek to address them through collaboration, learning, sharing and strategic decision-making.” Their race or ethnicity have unjustly served as roadblocks in their careers due to the inequitable systems that continue to impact our society today.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

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. Embracing factors such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion , gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and disability status is crucial.

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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. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

So, how do we create in this economic space co-ops, community land trusts, collaborations of co-ops? If I convince people when they make an argument for equity, they should talk about it not just in terms of fairness and inclusion but in terms of prosperity and productivity, I feel like I’ve more than won the argument.

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Inclusive Conversations: Make a Statement of Inclusion for 2018

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

It’s all about cultural competency and how communications staff can not only be more inclusive and therefore effective in their communications work products, but also lead these conversations within their own nonprofits. Antionette Kerr is back with us today for another post in the series we are calling “Inclusive Conversations.”