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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. The need to develop more childcare businesses is obvious, but how to build and sustain viable childcare businesses is not. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonetheless, the examples speak to the potential for community organizing, when connected to land acquisition funds, to greatly improve prospects for businesses and residents in low-income communities and communities of color. percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Purchasing land was, in a sense, the easiest step.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Having opportunities to play and laugh is as essential as being able to participate in political and religious life, own property, and engage in work. Nevertheless, it remains an excellent starting point for considering healthy contexts and provides practical guidance for developing Zero-Problem Philanthropy practices.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year. Steve Dubb, “What Does Community Development for Liberation Look Like?,” In the 1970s, that number fell to 0.78