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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. Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019), 32. 11 (2022):12351–58.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. Autism Speaks funds programs that provide people with autism with social and educational experiences through their Norma and Malcolm Baker Recreation Grant programs.

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

Bloomerang

The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function. Educational challenges faced by inner-city communities in the U.S.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

We need physical, social, cultural, and mental space to understand what it means to live at this complicated and wondrous intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality that is Black bisexuality+ on our own terms and within value systems that give our experience meaning, our lives purpose, and our realities affirmation.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

While there, I was part of the Center for Popular Economics, which does popular economics education with trade union folks and community members. And there are lots of bad ideas that become public policy because they’re tied to power. “If you ignore race and racism, it’s going to come back up.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Nor are the economic data any more encouraging when one measures inequality by race. Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race.