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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 33 Failures in Racial and Ethnic Representation The potential AI bridges noted above, of course, can only work as well as they are designed. 10 Only 35.1

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

Dementia mostly impacts older adults across all races and ethnicities, although some forms of dementia do impact younger people as well. However, dementia is not a normal process of aging, nor is it a function of race, which is a social construct. Who is impacted by dementia?

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Improving AAPI Health with Better Data

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Urja Bhatt on unsplash.com Recently, a colleague asked me to identify my race. Presented with the standard options for race (White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian), I’ve always selected Asian. She was collecting diversity information and needed to fill in the field.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities. The digital economy thus has not only failed to deliver, but has exploited racial/ethnic, gender, and geopolitical hierarchies in the process.

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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous. Many institutions go by the guideline that the gift must represent at least half of construction costs.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By embedding young people in relationships and activities that help them constructively respond to hardships and trauma, youth organizing can channel their energy toward building a multiracial democracy. Use of intersectional frameworks.