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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a physician and public health professional, these formative traditional values and beliefs have guided my personal journey toward promoting equity. Races and ethnicities in the United States are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). What’s In a Name? My question is, “Whose evidence is it?”

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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. Learning About Community Power.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. I was suffocating. Creating space to breathe freely.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

I remember this [ NPQ elevating the voices of social change leaders of color] was a vision of yours. 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.”

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Management Challenges: Early Lessons in Advancing Pay Equity and Wellness Globally

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com When your nonprofit’s mission is to ensure that the internet remains a public resource open and accessible to all, and most of your work takes place online, you might think the recent rise of remote work would make management and operations less complicated.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.