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Sharing the MLK, Jr. Holiday in a Culturally Competent Way

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Contributing Writer Antionette Kerr will be blogging this year for us on several topics, including cultural competency in nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Working effectively cross-culturally is an especially important topic for people working in nonprofit communications. They were spat on, hosed down, bullied, and threatened.

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Rest: A Middle Finger to Oppression, a Road Map to Justice by Shawn Ginwright

NonProfit Quarterly

A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home. Rest inequality refers to the gap in the quality, duration, and amount of rest people get depending on their status in Western culture. Rest Is An Act of Core Health.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

For organizations with other funding priorities, check out these specific areas: Education , Arts & Culture , Environmental Conservation , and Youth Programs. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of programs to help build a national culture of health. The Meadows Foundation. Hogg Foundation For Mental Health.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Early on, the community established itself enough to have its own cultural center, known as Cambodia Town. Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. But so too is the creative spirit. Led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge made everything much worse.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes. Another crucial factor in maternal and infant health: the mental wellbeing of women and birthing people, especially as it intersects with race.

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Changing the Health System: A Community-Led Approach Rises in Rhode Island

NonProfit Quarterly

In the series, urban and rural grassroots leaders from across the United States share how their communities are developing and implementing strategies—grounded in local places, cultures, and histories—to shift power and achieve systemic change. The culture I come from relies a lot on storytelling to cement our learning and culture.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

It means I recognize that the divine in me is the same divine in you and that we are children of God. jp: First, we wanted to expand the conversation beyond race. As we travel the world, some places don’t even talk about race. In some points, it challenges the nation-state, and it certainly challenges the ethnic nation-state.