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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

womeninleadership ” At UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), the U.S. Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Culture needs to be tailor made in every company with institutional memories, talents and environment, you design the mindset.” government at cost, which the federal government gave for free.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

Rest inequality refers to the gap in the quality, duration, and amount of rest people get depending on their status in Western culture. Researchers have found that the duration, quality, and frequency of rest in general and sleep in particular are shaped by income level, housing conditions, employment status, type of work, and race.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

This put pressure on governments, institutions, and other organizations to proactively engage in racial justice reform within healthcare and medicine. The HeLa cell culture has survived for more than 70 years and is integral to biomedical research around the globe.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” —Alicia S. She prefers it this way.

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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Indigenous Peoples have oral histories that confirm eons of existence in relationship with place, and we should be respectful that many Indigenous cultures have their own belief systems regarding creation and the origins of their populations. I was fortunate to grow up in a family with many traditional healers and cultural leaders.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. Also, one of the things you talk about concerns the limits of government and how just having the state be the solution isn’t always the best course. So, please elaborate on that a little bit.