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

Bloomerang

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. We build community and coalition with others. None are perfect.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Previously, he said, “for much of the field of community organizing, there was a lot more race neutrality.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? Steve Dubb, “What Does Community Development for Liberation Look Like?,”