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Closing Care Gaps: Physician Shortages, Medical Deserts, and Health Disparities

NonProfit Quarterly

Aside from the areas of medicine that will shape the extent of care delivered in the not-so-distant future, important asymmetries in the race and gender of physicians will continue to impact patient care. President and Fellows Harvard College and SFFA v.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.”

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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

” Jerrica Peets, LEAP Program Manager and FAAME Project Manager, LEAP Tampa Bay “As a Black woman in higher education and mental health consultancy, I’ve experienced first-hand the need for greater racial and gender diversity in leadership roles. If we won’t save ourselves then no one will.

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Title IX at 50: Sports Drive and Inspire Women Leaders to C-Suites

Fundraising Leadership

The recent Title IX conference at Northwestern University features L to R: Christine Brennan; Kristina Minor, Kate Drohan, Janna Blais, Kelly Amonte Hiller. “ “Title IX is a law about producing better citizens” says @Cbrennansports, also a CNN commentator, alum of NU ‘s @MedillSchool, and member of NU’s Board of Trustees.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors.

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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.” She prefers it this way.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

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