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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Murguía often testifies before Congress about issues affecting the Latino community including education, health care, civil rights and the economy. Following four years in the U.S.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it can also create space for bias: familiarity can be derived from a variety of factors—the words someone uses, their background, conjugation, or even eye color—but it’s often connected to culture, ethnicity, and/or traditional access to social capital.

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The City That Was in a Forest—Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People: A Conversation with Hugh “H. D.” Hunter

NonProfit Quarterly

Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost. This city of beautiful Black people and culture used to be in a forest. Gentrification,” accessed August 11, 2023, education. Protect the Okefenokee Swamp!”

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Narrative History Narratives are our cultural understandings, our frames of reference, our mental models—they provide the story of our social world. During this time, Black people were forced into labor without choice or compensation because of the widespread cultural narrative that they were racially inferior.

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Urban Development Needs Systems Thinking

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Their ongoing journeys have surfaced four lessons that can help other cities move beyond conventional planning pitfalls, and adopt a more responsive, inclusive, and sustainable approach to urban development. However, this approach overlooked the broader social and cultural factors influencing young peoples decisions to leave.

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

We are speaking out in our own names and our own stories,” Paul Osadebe, a FUN organizer and trial attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development told NPQ. A Culture of Courage and Joy The FUN was created not only to organize but to counter fear. That message has reverberated. Strengthening existing unions.

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Read, Listen, Learn: 13 Great Books by Women Authors for Women’s History Month

Fundraising Leadership

With days to go in Womens History Month, the theme Moving Forward Together, celebrating "Women Educating and Inspiring Generations" fits perfectly with Take The Leads suggested list of books by women authors writing about history. And there is no better time than in todays disruptive cultural chaos to do just that.

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