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UNESCO World Heritage Designation in Ohio Honors Indigenous Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

Wallace spoke before a crowd gathered at the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe, OH. The dedication of eight locations related to the ancient Indigenous Hopewell culture was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) as World Heritage sites. The occasion?

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Although this concentration has had profound local economic and cultural implications, various government agencies have justified it by saying that it is necessary for security reasons or that it brings in national economic support in exchange for hosting the military facilities. percent of the country’s total land area.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Who Are You Writing To?

The Agitator

All the great fundraising copywriters agree on one key piece of advice … construct a very clear archetypal image (demographically, psychographically, culturally) of the individual you are writing to, and then write as though you were speaking to that person face-to-face. Point-and-shoot cameras are soooooo last millennium.

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Rethinking Tourism: Maui’s Climate Vulnerability and Its Future

NonProfit Quarterly

Deforestation and rapid construction to support tourism destroyed thousands of acres of natural habitats and sacred ecosystems. Zoning laws and land use regulations spurred on by the tourism industry made Hawaii the most expensive US state in which to live. Industrial farming techniques replaced traditional subsistence farming.

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The Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment

NonProfit Quarterly

In the years following the march, our nation would see some semblance of progress, with the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed into law. These laws—these milestones of progress—are the scaffolding for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry that we know today.

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” The power of movements is based in the ideas that fuel them, that inspire people to come together and work toward the realization of a shared goal or values.” How does our recruiting need to change if we are drawing more on others in the ecosystem?