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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Primed by the undocumented youth movement at the beginning of the decade, and drawing energy from the allied Movement for Black Lives in the latter half, these groups engaged growing numbers of adolescents in addressing local, regional, and even statewide issues. Use of intersectional frameworks.

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How to Hire the Right People for Raising Major Gifts

iMarketSmart

As the study points out, 26% of giving pledge signers are ethnic minorities, immigrants, or non-US residents. But you don’t have to be of the same race or ethnic background as a donor prospect to effectively engage with them. This is true no matter the ethnic background of the gift officer or the prospect.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

If your nonprofit is working on climate justice, for example, a diverse advisory committee can help ensure your work considers the way climate policies and practices impact populations differently across age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other important identity categorizations.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

We are looking at the experiences of marginalized racial and ethnic groups,” Ohm says. We put a lot of energy on it, but what we do we have to do for specific work on this? The second myth is that income is the primary determinant of health outcomes, when race matters. Why are we still talking about emotional tax?” asks Bible.

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

There were people of color representing a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds—from South Asian to African American. But what I do know is that there was so much energy generated from that writing. And I think that’s the generative stance—that’s why I started to move beyond race to talking about power.” That I don’t know.

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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.