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

NonProfit Quarterly

Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Rising together: Supporting boys, men, and all communities 

Candid

An intersectional perspective on supporting boys and men The challenges boys and men face intersect with race and ethnicity and social class, just as they do for women and girls. The key focus areas Id suggest are mental health , education , and fatherhood.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Neuroscience, broadly, deals with the nervous system and the brain, including mental health. 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1 10 Only 35.1

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? What is dementia? Who is impacted by dementia?

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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Be prudent with your financial resources , looking not only to short-term consequences but also to long-term health, even if this forces you to make difficult decisions now. See, for example, The Project Grant Rule Hub.

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Improving AAPI Health with Better Data

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Urja Bhatt on unsplash.com Recently, a colleague asked me to identify my race. Presented with the standard options for race (White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian), I’ve always selected Asian. “Oh!” She was collecting diversity information and needed to fill in the field. I shrugged.

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The Long Road to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: SHREY DEEPRANJAN Today, healthcare institutions acknowledge forces like structural racism as drivers of negative health outcomes—but effectively addressing racism inside of those institutions still has a long way to go.

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