NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 4, 2023

Researchers and mental-health practitioners from Northwestern University, the Mayo Clinic, and the Institute of Therapy through the Arts have joined forces to examine how music-based therapy can improve social engagement among patients with dementia. Who is impacted by dementia? In the US, one in 10 older Americans have dementia.

Health 145

Health Race and Ethnicity Culture Education 145

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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.

Leadership 122

Leadership Public and Social Policy Poverty Race and Ethnicity 122

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

We have committees solely focused on the prevention of violence, the medical-forensic response to assault victims, and cultures of sexual violence and response on college and university campuses (among others). Each of these committees draw individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds to help guide different aspects of our work.

Race and Ethnicity 105

Race and Ethnicity Recruitment Production Collaborations 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Races and ethnicities in the United States are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). For Indigenous Peoples at the micro-level, education on money management and economics would assist individuals in navigating modern society. What’s In a Name?

Health 98

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the case of poorer communities, there is a large gap in the formal education of entrepreneurs, whose schooling is usually of inferior quality and more limited overall, with business management concepts and knowledge also less accessible. To develop this human capital is not easy, because there is a structural gap in education.

Social Entrepreneurship 128

Social Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Social Enterprise 128

iMarketSmart

AUGUST 9, 2023

The study also gives examples of what various higher education institutions do to hire better MGO candidates. Just 12% of gifts at private universities are unrestricted, and a mere 3% at public universities. The EAB study looked at 1,200 MGOs from 90 colleges and universities. They’re just good communicators.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Universities Philanthropy Education 52

iMarketSmart

APRIL 24, 2023

Potential donors were asked, “How close do you feel to your ethnic or racial group?” Those answering, “very close” or “close,” gave more when the pictured victims matched their own race. They gave more when the victims did not match their own race. Race mattered. It asked for donations for an education project.

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Fundraising Fundraising Altruism and Helping 52

MNA Association

JANUARY 22, 2024

Similar gaps exist based on differences in race and ethnicity. Continuing education? Raised in rural Montana, Adam received his bachelor’s degree from Carroll College and his master’s in business administration from the University of Montana. Do we value performance? Do we value tenure or experience?

Race and Ethnicity 52

Race and Ethnicity Associations Values Culture 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

All of us are constantly navigating multiple social systems: the education system, the healthcare system, our family system. The experiment was redirected to focus on how we might educate both parents and medical staff about each other before patients arrive at the hospital. These included: Changing California state law.

Medical 105

Medical Health Culture Healthcare 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The ELTRR is referenced in a recent publication by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity , as a critical federal strategy. The universality of such wins illustrates why shared stewardship is such a powerful key to progress.

Health 98

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 98

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)

Race and Ethnicity 111

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 111

NonProfit Leadership Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As community needs continue to exceed nonprofit capacity, The University of Tampa partners with the Conn Memorial Foundation and the Nonprofit Leadership Center to provide emerging nonprofit executives with a graduate-level education to lead our communities forward. million people and outpacing for-profit job growth three to one.*

Universities 147

Universities Race and Ethnicity Civil Society Nonprofit Leadership 147

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. While there, I was part of the Center for Popular Economics, which does popular economics education with trade union folks and community members. I went from there to teach at Occidental College.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Governance Universities 136

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

takeleadwomen acknowledges the #depth and #breadth of #Blackwomen in #business, #entrepreneurship, #education, #media and all of #American #culture far past the calendar month of the year. Women in The Workplace Report shows, Women remain underrepresented across the pipeline, a gender gap that persists regardless of race and ethnicity.

Race and Ethnicity 69

Race and Ethnicity Entrepreneurship Leadership Education 69

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

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.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 31, 2025

Air Force, corporations, universities, legal and medical associations, non-profits and more organizations and companies across industries, prompted different, large-scale responses. Women remain underrepresented across the pipeline, a gender gap that persists regardless of race and ethnicity.

Race and Ethnicity 74

Race and Ethnicity Law Non-Profits Leadership 74

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2024

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.

Medical 105

Medical Health Race and Ethnicity Healthcare 105

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

According to the article “Representations of Race and Skin Tone in Medical Textbook Imagery,” which presents findings from the analysis of 4,146 images from four widely used anatomy textbooks, the textbooks “overrepresent light skin tone and underrepresent dark skin tone.”

Medical 135

Medical Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health 135

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Ethics Race and Ethnicity Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2024

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.

Race and Ethnicity 135

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Health Philanthropy 135

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When people think about cultural competency, they tend to talk in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and religion. As trusted technical assistance providers, SHIFT NC staff saw their community partners struggling with inclusion, so they looked at the many ways that sex education and reproductive health care can exclude LGBT youth.

Communication 151

Communication Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Culture 151

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Race and Ethnicity Energy 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

2 Today’s Utility System Disparities Deploying new climate technologies with century-plus-old unjust laws, regulations, and practices… poses a high risk that existing disparities will be locked in for another century while the root power, race, and capital imbalances fueling the climate crisis go unaddressed. See also Deborah A.

Energy 121

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 121

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The recent Title IX conference at Northwestern University features L to R: Christine Brennan; Kristina Minor, Kate Drohan, Janna Blais, Kelly Amonte Hiller. With Title IX as the norm, Brennan says, “We will feel more comfortable voting for women for Senate. The good news, she says, is, “We’re saying things out loud that we used to whisper.”

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Universities Law Leadership 98

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Waller is also a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral research fellow in the psychiatry department at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. In the report, the researchers point out that structural racism might provide insight as to why Black women, regardless of their ethnicity, face disproportionately high rates of homicide.

Poverty 74

Poverty Medical Health Universities 74

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 3, 2025

Most recently, students and faculty banded together to call on the federal government to account for revoking thousands of university community members’ visas, largely for their participation in pro-Palestinian protests, but with some for minor offenses like traffic violations.

Civil Society 52

Civil Society Curriculum and Teaching Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

4 Two key examples are Nigerias significant efforts to enhance primary healthcare through the Saving One Million Lives (SOML) initiative, 5 and the countrys progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) via the National Health Act (NHA). 25 These systemic societal challenges pose considerable risks to technological innovations in Nigeria.

Health 98

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 28, 2024

The book was published by the de Beaumont Foundation in partnership with the Maternal Health Learning & Innovation Center and Oxford University Press. We met and got the support of the de Beaumont Foundation and Oxford University Press. NPQ spoke with Cilenti to gain more insight into the book and its findings.

Public and Social Policy 105

Public and Social Policy Health Medical Race and Ethnicity 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 19, 2025

According to the latest Democracy Report from the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem Institute, there are more autocracies than democracies globally for the first time in over 20 years. In such regimes, a leader is elected democratically and then erodes checks and balances, particularly through attacks on freedom of the press and assembly.

Leadership 74

Leadership Philanthropy Culture Values 74

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

16 Incentivization, such as financial ones, could lead to exploitation, since individuals may not understand their datas true value; thus, education, support, and transparency would be essential to protect peoples interests and minimize misuse. Race has been used in clinical diagnosis and decision-making for a long time.

Race and Ethnicity 75

Race and Ethnicity Health Ethics Public and Social Policy 75

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2025

As a faculty member at the University of Texas (UT) in Austin, I have experienced the disadvantages of a hostile state government, but arguably now have the advantage of seeing what attacks on DEI look likeand an understanding of what kinds of response are possible. How can leaders who seek to protect racial justice respond?

Race and Ethnicity 116

Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Social Policy Universities 116

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 15, 2025

That number includes about 1 in 3 Americans, with people in every major racial and ethnic group, according to the data-rich National Equity Atlas (an online resource produced by PolicyLink and the University of Southern Californias Equity Research Institute). living in or near poverty. Propelled by the 2023 U.S.

Public and Social Policy 82

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Poverty Governance 82

Fundraising Leadership

APRIL 10, 2025

less on average than men in 2024, after controlling for race and ethnicity, education, age, marital status, and state, according to the Working Economics Blog. The date represents how far into 2025 women would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2024 simply to match what men were paid in 2024.

Race and Ethnicity 77

Race and Ethnicity Law Education Education 77

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 12, 2025

Wilson cited recent analysis by The Budget Lab at Yale University that showed that the current 22.5 One 9to5 member who wants to empower families to secure their economic futures is Atlanta-based Deborah Truitt, who through her company Mommy Mean Bizness educates women of color to help them become entrepreneurs and homeowners.

Race and Ethnicity 102

Race and Ethnicity Medical Homelessness Associations 102

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 23, 2025

The Department of Justice (DOJ) notified Syed that a three-year federal grant for community education to prevent and address anti-Asian hate had been abruptly terminated. From exclusion laws to post-9/11 surveillance, the Asian American experience has been fundamentally shaped by race.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Governance Race and Ethnicity Law 115