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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

A quick Google search on “community impacts of the Lower Sesan II Dam” shows that the impact on the community has been anything but good. The interviewees communicated that the year that most of the community was forced to leave was The year differs in some reports. 2 (Spring 1998): 417–28.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing in Climate Work Geography and geospatial science, which are integral parts of Earth system science, use tools such as geographic information systems and remote sensing to study the physical and cultural environments on Earth.

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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. Let’s talk about it!

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

Their findings demonstrate that music not only improves dementia patients’ social communication but can also reduce caregivers’ distress. Relatedly, there is a growing ecosystem of interventions that utilize the healing power of music to improve community health, such as the work of the Black Music Therapy Network, Inc.

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

This isn’t about filling seats; it’s about enriching your organization’s culture and capabilities with new perspectives to support your mission and drive growth. Implement a board portal for communication and organization. Communicate the expectations. Foster a collaborative culture. Your challenges?

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In a sense, the technology has given [us] the ability to communicate and have contact with each other, which is great and creates new possibilities but also new dangers. Du Bois, what do you mean to communicate by that statement, and why do you hold this position? jp: First, we wanted to expand the conversation beyond race.

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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. Unfortunately, 25,000 young people from infants to college graduates, more than 45% of all youth in Marin, are impacted by a system that was not designed with equity in mind.