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Development Director

Anedot

To get there, we have made a commitment to redesign our educational ecosystem so that race, ethnicity and poverty no longer determine opportunity or outcome. Under the direct supervision of the CEO, this person will work collaboratively to identify, secure and grow individual and institutional donor relationships.

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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

If you have a thousand people who take out a loan, knowing their race or ethnicity will tell you very little about who will repay the loan. You can observe income and you can observe demographic characteristics like race. And because disposable income varies by race, it could be used as an indicator of who will repay the loan.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

As the 2021 Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States report reminds us, “Race…plays a significant role in determining one’s risk of exposure to air pollution, even after controlling for other socioeconomic and demographic factors.” 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

To date, over 55,000 nonprofits have shared some information on their staffs’ and board members’ race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status, through their Candid profile. Here are the four solutions the Candid tech team built to suit our various peers, partners, and collaborators’ needs.

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

Candid

This time around, more than 30 recipients were fiscally sponsored entities, collaboratives, or specific funds within organizations. For example, several donor collaboratives housed at Borealis Philanthropy were individually supported, including the Black Led Movement Fund, the Disability Inclusion Fund, and the Spark Justice Fund.

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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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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. We had our first in-person meeting with Massport about idling in February, where we asked for more regular collaboration and for forums to be inclusive and open to the community.