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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. Colleges and universities depend critically on the labor power of all who work in them.

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Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Fundraising Leadership

This course will teach you the specific thought processes and skills to identify and channel your inner strength and power, Feldt says. We do this work and offer this course because you deserve the equal pay, positions, and power of your highest intentions. You already have more power than you might realize.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Despite these risk disparities, there is a significant underrepresentation of individuals from these communities in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—fields that design and use tools to understand, predict, and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Nonprofits to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

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Navigating DEI Challenges: Strategic Advice for Purpose-Driven Organizations to Meet the Moment

NonProfit PRO

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. That was the silver lining.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. Ask the kids dropping out from either school if the lack of unified national curriculum standards was at fault. When she tied the assignment to their desires and interests - to their passions - 85% turned it in.