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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

MW: And so, I want to position that for funders, for people who are leading philanthropic organizations, to be able to think differently and workshop ideas for integration with peers, and grapple constructively with the myriad complexities associated with implementing racially equitable principles and practices. CS: He wants to do that.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

This component provides a process for delving deeply into one’s own life experiences and peeling back the layers to uncover the complex dynamics—specifically of race and diversity—that shape our perspectives. Exercises on the topics of race, schools, family name, and neighborhoods open opportunities for self-examination to occur.

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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.

Health 94
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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.

Ethics 83
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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?

Health 139
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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.

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

But they are, in fact, incredibly diverse—representing many ethnicities, speaking hundreds of languages, identifying with various faiths, with very different migration stories. Community, if it is to mean something more than geographic proximity, must be constructed through developing relationships among people who live near each other.

Values 108