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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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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

501c3 organizations can engage in many forms of advocacy in furtherance of their missions that are not limited by lobbying or political campaign intervention or support rules, including educational issue advocacy, advocacy on administrative regulations, calls for executive action, boycotts, and litigation.

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

NonProfit Leadership Center

” Jerrica Peets, LEAP Program Manager and FAAME Project Manager, LEAP Tampa Bay “As a Black woman in higher education and mental health consultancy, I’ve experienced first-hand the need for greater racial and gender diversity in leadership roles.

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Nonprofit Program at University of Tampa Demonstrates Significant Impact on First 15 Years of Graduates

NonProfit Leadership Center

.* As community needs continue to exceed nonprofit capacity, The University of Tampa partners with the Conn Memorial Foundation and the Nonprofit Leadership Center to provide emerging nonprofit executives with a graduate-level education to lead our communities forward. It was an education that no amount of time at a nonprofit would give you.”

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

These included higher education institutions with students from underserved communities, arts organizations, and social sector infrastructure organizations. This time around, more than 30 recipients were fiscally sponsored entities, collaboratives, or specific funds within organizations.

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Family Care Specialist

Anedot

Additionally, this position is responsible for assisting in the recruitment and training for Program Volunteers, including Community Educators and Community Representatives. The Family Care Specialist is responsible for the delivery of Helpline and Care Consultation services.

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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.

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