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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 14 A dearth of mental health providers with the cultural understanding needed to work with NHPI youth can also lead to their misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1

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Enough Is Enough: Leading With Equity in 2025 and Beyond For Success

Fundraising Leadership

Diversity is a plus, equity a necessity, and inclusion is the process to achieve the desired culture, writes Feldt. Those strategies include embracing new perspectives from a team of colleagues representing identities across race, gender, geography, religion, ability, neurodiversity, education, expertise, and experience.

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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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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

Researchers and mental-health practitioners from Northwestern University, the Mayo Clinic, and the Institute of Therapy through the Arts have joined forces to examine how music-based therapy can improve social engagement among patients with dementia. Who is impacted by dementia? In the US, one in 10 older Americans have dementia.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

We Must Build Parameters to Protect People from AI Creators and AI Creators from Themselves In the rush to lead the global AI race, it can be tempting to prioritize innovation, speed, and profit without pausing to consider the profound ethical, societal, and human consequences. 1 (February 2023): 283307; and Jie Chen et al.,

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The gains would be universal, and in the new internet economy, everyone would have a place. Those who faced barriers in the offline world along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity or ability would find new opportunities.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Historical and cultural barriers Historical and cultural barriers can also hinder social mobility for individuals from underserved communities as they may face prejudice and discrimination based on their cultural background. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.