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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6 And while unemployment plagues 11.3

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Providing historic context that was rare elsewhere at the conference, Dr. Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. Another piece of this painting would look like a landscape of advocacy and policy change institutions that prioritize racial and economic justice to level the playing field.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center. United We Dream.

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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. COVID-19 has exacerbated this crisis, and the country’s recent racial reckoning has heightened awareness of the need for racially equitable housing policies to support healthier communities.