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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

The report states that Florida’s public colleges and universities “face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history” (1), with implications for the whole country. Act, banning the teaching in public schools of a wide swath of racial or racially informed curricula. Last year, Gov.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead. It also includes presentation slides that community members can use to teach others.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.”

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

I could practically teaching this class. You know, the end result looks really wonderful, there’s a big media blitz, social media posts, you know, everyone’s celebrating, but it doesn’t mean that there weren’t thorns along the way, difficulties along the way, or a lot of lessons learned. Move aside, Julie.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.

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Great Nonprofit Marketing Jobs: Friday Futures

Getting Attention

Director of Communications and Public Relations , American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, MA). Program Associate , Policy Advocacy & Organizing, Illinois Public Health Institute (Chicago, IL). Program Manager – Pathway to Leadership in Urban Schools , The New Teach Project (Philadelphia, PA).