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What’s Love Got to Do With It? Returning Philanthropy to Its Root

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This helped catalyze the early movement for equal educational opportunities for Black children, the landmark Supreme Court victory in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the larger Civil Rights movement. aims to shift resources and innovation in the education system closer to the communities the system serves.

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23 Leaders Selected for 2022 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Andre Curry, registered nurse and certified health coach, Florida Blue. “As As a Black man who has achieved success in education and my career, it is my duty to give back and continue pushing for equity across many aspects of difference. Karen Lewis, VP of information technology, Franklin Templeton.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Through this network of organizations, entrepreneurs are provided with a suite of resources and guidance to help their businesses thrive, from educational courses and workshops that transform an idea into a business plan, direct coaching to put the business plan into action, networking, and access to capital.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

In Frazier’s view, the limits of such professional inclusion exemplifies a larger problem: how structural inequality impacts Black health. Finally, I think political education has a central role in social change—which is why so many of the people that I talk about in the book are teachers, whatever else they are.