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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Narrative History Narratives are our cultural understandings, our frames of reference, our mental models—they provide the story of our social world. During this time, Black people were forced into labor without choice or compensation because of the widespread cultural narrative that they were racially inferior.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

Department of Housing and Urban Development) transitions threatened most aspects of our funding, I said “yes” to more than 12 local and state boards while serving as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit and vice president of our state coalition. At a time when HUD (U.S. Smith Reynolds Sabbatical Foundation (ZSR).

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Read, Listen, Learn: 13 Great Books by Women Authors for Women’s History Month

Fundraising Leadership

And there is no better time than in todays disruptive cultural chaos to do just that. The author, is an award-winning Medical Oncologist specializing in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Koleka Putuma, Collective Amnesia.

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Trans Refugees: What Trans People Need to Know About Finding Safety Abroad

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, the group stresses that there is growing resistance in Mexico to gentrification and an increasing frustration with foreigners who impose Americanized norms or disregard local culture. While many trans people are preparing to flee the country, ifand whenit becomes necessary, not everyone has the ability to do so.