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23 Leaders Selected for 2022 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

In response to research that shows nearly 1 in 3 nonprofits lack any professionals of color on their boards (BoardSource) and to foster more inclusive and equitable communities, the Nonprofit Leadership Center launched the Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship in 2021. Meet the 2022 Fellows.

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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

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Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke

NonProfit Quarterly

I was in conversation with the managers of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). When the business model is under tremendous stress, and thousands of journalists have lost full-time work, lost health coverage, and lost retirement benefits. And it means you don’t have to talk to the bosses alone as one against the management.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Where Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?

NonProfit Quarterly

Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.” million to management and technical assistance, $76.7