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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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India’s Philanthropy Spending Grows, Development Goals Elusive

The NonProfit Times

Despite the robust annual increases, however, the current total falls short of the 13% of GDP analysts at NITI Aayog, an Indian government public policy think tank, believe is necessary for the country to meet its commitment to achieving 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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

Bloomerang

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Limited access to networks Limited access to networks and social capital can make it difficult for individuals to connect with others who can help them advance in their careers and succeed in their endeavors.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

Just this fall, in an interactive session designed to kick off October’s National Economics Education Month, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell praised economics educators for helping the Fed conduct monetary policy by teaching economics. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.”

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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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Puerto Rican Advocates Pursue Community Control of Renewable Energy

NonProfit Quarterly

Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart? Officially, it is now public policy in Puerto Rico to move to 100 percent renewable power by 2050 (with intermediary goals of 40 percent renewable power by 2025—that is, a year from now—and 60 percent by 2040).

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