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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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Uprooting Oppressive Values in Social Change Work through Emotional Intelligence

NonProfit Quarterly

So it is with our behaviors and our values: our deeply ingrained patterns of behavior are fueled by values deep below the surface. Sometimes, without our conscious awareness, these values driving our patterns of behavior sprout from the seeds of White supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism. She is experiencing chronic burnout.

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Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

But they are, in fact, incredibly diverse—representing many ethnicities, speaking hundreds of languages, identifying with various faiths, with very different migration stories. Community members face the possibility of losing the cultural anchors that these small businesses often represent for them.

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Eliminating Biphobia Through Breath, Brotherhood, and the Arts

NonProfit Quarterly

We need physical, social, cultural, and mental space to understand what it means to live at this complicated and wondrous intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality that is Black bisexuality+ on our own terms and within value systems that give our experience meaning, our lives purpose, and our realities affirmation.

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. 1] In spite of the salience of race in the experience of leadership, there is not much study of the Black leadership experience. Image Credit: Van3ssa ? A somewhat different perspective.is

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Indigenous Land Return as Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Considering Northern California’s climate vulnerability, Sogorea Te’ has since turned all of their himmetkas on returned land into culturally based climate resiliency hubs for the community during natural disasters. A himmetka is a concept that is part of an Indigenous epistemology rooted in taking care of one’s guests.

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Healing Society through the Archaeology of Self™: A Racial Literacy Development Approach

NonProfit Quarterly

This component provides a process for delving deeply into one’s own life experiences and peeling back the layers to uncover the complex dynamics—specifically of race and diversity—that shape our perspectives. Civil society leaders must grapple with complex challenges rooted in social inequality, systemic biases, and cultural divides.