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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Selection of scholarship recipients : The majority of funds raised during my higher education career were to provide much-needed financial assistance to students in need. Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous.

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DEI Under Attack: A Conversation with Paulette Granberry Russell

NonProfit Quarterly

Amid these legislative maneuvers, some leaders in higher education and DEI are speaking out with increasing alarm, and with calls to action. Among those leaders is Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. When I talk about social identities, I’m talking about race.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.

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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.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Companies can now hire workers without being constrained by geography, thanks to developments in communication and technology. A key component of adaptability is learning agility, which is the ability to quickly pick up and use new skills—a critical ability given the speed at which technology is developing.

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How to Hire the Right People for Raising Major Gifts

iMarketSmart

The study also gives examples of what various higher education institutions do to hire better MGO candidates. The EAB Study of Top-Performing Major Gifts Officers Up until 2013, when EAB (Educational Advisory Board) conducted this study , no large-scale investigation into major gift officer hiring had been done. That’s one fourth.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

A January 2021 report published by Pew Research showed that 54 percent of Black online participants and 47 percent of Hispanic participants say they were targeted for harassment due to race or ethnicity, compared with 17 percent of White users. Sometimes things can go wrong even when your social media staff have done everything right.

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