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Creative Wildfire: Art for the Frontlines

NonProfit Quarterly

The retreats found their home at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center , an 80-acre ecological reserve in Sonoma County, CA, where retreat participants could learn about ecology, the climate crisis, and biological and cultural diversity—and have the space to brainstorm ways to use their art for a better future.

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Building Tenant Power for the Long Haul: A Story from Long Beach, California

NonProfit Quarterly

Long Beach is among the nation’s most ethnically diverse cities. Despite being home to many culturally diverse neighborhoods, the city remains deeply segregated, a lasting effect from decades of redlining. Nearly three-quarters of city residents are people of color, with the Latinx population growing the fastest.

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Creative School Fundraising Ideas [+ AI Fundraising Idea Generator]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Charge a fee for participation and highlight the educational value to parents. Sell tickets and promote the event’s entertainment value. Charge a fee for participation and emphasize the educational value and real-world applications. Inclusive Sports Day: Organize a sports day that emphasizes inclusion and diversity.

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Public Land for Public Good: Preserving Miami’s Dominican Neighborhood

NonProfit Quarterly

That period of intensive triage demonstrated our organization’s immediate value and, just as important, the value of community organizing. “I While our city is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity, the truth is just about every one of our ethnic enclaves has faced a similar battle—and lost.

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Why Inclusive Brand Marketing Is Imperative Today

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Be sensitive to cultural diversity and how your visuals may affect your audience. For example color psychology is frequently cited as an important factor in choosing palettes for design, but it varies from culture to culture.

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Holding Our Ground: Tenant Organizing in San Francisco’s Mission District

NonProfit Quarterly

Stunningly, the same report found that 51 percent of Ellis Act evictions were done within one year of landlords acquiring the properties—a sure sign that the evictions had nothing to do with landlords “retiring” and everything to do with landlords seeking to extract more value from the properties they had purchased.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

Where We Are Now Nonprofits and charitable foundations are now left wondering what practices may expose them to legal action and how they may continue to operate in alignment with their values and objectives while complying with the evolving state of the law. Recommendation 2: Support advocacy efforts.