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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?

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. Collaborate with professional associations, industry groups, and affinity networks relevant to your organization’s mission and sector. Foster a collaborative culture. Promote continuous learning.

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Essential Skills for Staying Competitive in the Global Job Market

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Although English is the most common language in international business, knowing other languages can be a big advantage when collaborating with clients or coworkers from around the world. Embracing factors such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion , gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and disability status is crucial.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Assuming positive traits and emotions like joy, love, intimacy, and hope provide an opportunity to build constructive thoughts and ideas about the future. Hence, the asset model has the potential to create the kind of shared vision that can lessen fractured and siloed approaches that inhibit cooperation and collaboration.”

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

But they are, in fact, incredibly diverse—representing many ethnicities, speaking hundreds of languages, identifying with various faiths, with very different migration stories. Honoring diversity requires collaboration. Some came to the United States in the mid-19th century, seeking work as farmers or laborers.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

While race is a social construct that serves as a poor predictor of genetic variation, racial parity in genomic data is important because race serves as a proxy for population descriptors and other, more appropriate genetic ancestry labels.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. And we have compounded the invisibility of those working for racial justice, Black liberation, and equity based on ethnic or racial identity.