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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1

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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Selection of scholarship recipients : The majority of funds raised during my higher education career were to provide much-needed financial assistance to students in need. Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous.

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Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Roger Low In 2023, what education and training do Americans need, beyond high school? At the same time, to salvage the American middle class, suck toxic resentment out of our politics, and build a more equitable economy, we must reimagine higher education, workforce training, and how taxpayers fund both.

Education 106
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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

” Hanif Andrews, Vice President Commercial Associate III, Bank of America “T he sense of fulfillment and satisfaction that comes from making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and the overall wellbeing of my community is what calls me to engage in nonprofit board service.

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Shades of Inequity: Why It’s Crucial to Diversify Medical Illustrations

NonProfit Quarterly

A study in the Journal of the National Medical Association that examined “the landscape of published imaging in modern medicine,” which included medical course PowerPoint slides, pre-clinical lecture materials, case studies, and medical textbooks, found stark differences in representation of White people and non-Whites.

Medical 135
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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

Dementia mostly impacts older adults across all races and ethnicities, although some forms of dementia do impact younger people as well. However, dementia is not a normal process of aging, nor is it a function of race, which is a social construct. Who is impacted by dementia? In the US, one in 10 older Americans have dementia.

Health 145