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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Problem With Problem-Solving Solving problems to improve people’s lives has been philanthropy’s raison d’être. However, some criticisms have arisen regarding the approach philanthropies take in problem-solving. Can this vision be applied to philanthropy? Three examples demonstrate the Zero-Problem Philanthropy approach.

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Building Youth Power

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This experience motivated Kahlila to become a youth organizer, helping to establish new Students Deserve chapters across Los Angeles County and to join a campaign to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD). As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event. Use of intersectional frameworks.

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Is Your Nonprofit Going The Way Of The GOP?

The Agitator

Have we so ignored the ethnic dimensions of fundraising that we are damaging our own future? What I am questioning is the long-term effect of this direct response apartheid — a process that too often simply ignores major non-Caucasian ethnic groups (Hispanics and Pan-Asians for example). Game change. Why are these groups ignored?

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. The Black Philanthropy Network is another organization that works to support Black leadership in the nonprofit sector.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In some ways, I am motivated by winning, Cyndi—I simply want to win. There were people of color representing a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds—from South Asian to African American. And I think that’s the generative stance—that’s why I started to move beyond race to talking about power.” What was it about the article?