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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. Civil society leaders must grapple with complex challenges rooted in social inequality, systemic biases, and cultural divides.

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How MacKenzie Scott Is Giving Her Money Away

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: islander11 on istock.com MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist once married to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has awarded $16 billion of her personal fortune in philanthropic grants through her Yield Giving foundation since 2019. NPQ was a recipient of a grant from Yield Giving in 2021.)

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Amir Geshani on unsplash.com As nonprofit organizations become more racially, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse, are nonprofit boards lagging behind? Elisa Juárez, the director of culture and DEI for a national healthcare company, was a recipient of the 2001 Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Youth Award.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Hanley Family Foundation. American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. Cigna Foundation. RBC Foundation – USA.

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Calling Out, Calling In, and Calling Upon One Another

Stanford Social Innovation Review

He knew he wanted to change the perception of Momentum for Health as a primarily white-serving organization and increase cultural competency across its team of providers, but he didn’t know where to begin. Ballard began reaching out to other nonprofit leaders, asking how they thought about centering race and equity.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

At around the same time that study was released, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation published a study of 36 Black women leaders’ experiences in the Washington, DC, area nonprofit sector. 14 He posited that there are universal patterns expressed in images and present in the collective unconscious of all humans across all cultures.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

The HeLa cell culture has survived for more than 70 years and is integral to biomedical research around the globe. For instance, race-based diagnostics and practice guidelines—remnants of slavery and eugenics, which asserted that people of different races are biologically distinct—have been incorporated into modern AI systems.

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