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

NonProfit Leadership Center

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. There is education and exposure that needs to occur in our communities before people even get into the corporate world. We’ve moved from talking about it to taking action.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

The Chicago Teachers Union, UCLA, and SEIU locals have all used this strategy to win immigration legal defense funds, to win support for homeless children, to win support for better climate policies through “the first climate strike.” They might be militants, but they were also teachers.