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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Logan McDonnell As a nonprofit professional with over a decade of experience working in homelessness programs and currently working in homelessness prevention, I’ve often heard coworkers describe how a person in one of these programs reminded them of a close relative or friend.

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A Bigger We

CNPE

all want a vibrant and safe downtown,” but am I really thinking about what would make a homeless family feel safe downtown? It means intentionally working to ensure that you are including people of different races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, and ages in your vision of “we.”. Or I could say: “.

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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

City Safe provides armed and unarmed security professionals to protect government, residental and commercial sites. But they are also more likely than women leaders of other races and ethnicities to receive signals that it will be harder for them to advance,” the report finds, according to Forbes. It is OK to be rejected.”

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

Bloomerang

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. It’s a complex tapestry of challenges: Prosperity or poverty, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status. One staff member shared in the evaluation, “We want them [residents] to feel confident.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. The vital conditions framework aims to shift how people think about health and wellbeing, particularly by recognizing the shortcomings of overreliance on urgent services.

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Where’s the Love: Is Your Communications Strategy LGBTQ Inclusive?

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

When people think about cultural competency, they tend to talk in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and religion. While a student at the University of Puerto Rico, Victoria became the first openly transgender member of student government and pushed the school’s administration for transgender accessible I.D.