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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

Selection of scholarship recipients : The majority of funds raised during my higher education career were to provide much-needed financial assistance to students in need. Race and ethnicity are forbidden, but specific school districts are permissible in which minorities are populous.

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Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Roger Low In 2023, what education and training do Americans need, beyond high school? At the same time, to salvage the American middle class, suck toxic resentment out of our politics, and build a more equitable economy, we must reimagine higher education, workforce training, and how taxpayers fund both.

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“Seeding by ceding”: What we know about the latest group of organizations funded by MacKenzie Scott

Candid

These included higher education institutions with students from underserved communities, arts organizations, and social sector infrastructure organizations. Additionally, 59 of 231 organizations (25 percent) have shared data with Candid about the race or ethnicity of their staff, executive leadership, and/or their board. .

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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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20 Leaders Selected for 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

” Jerrica Peets, LEAP Program Manager and FAAME Project Manager, LEAP Tampa Bay “As a Black woman in higher education and mental health consultancy, I’ve experienced first-hand the need for greater racial and gender diversity in leadership roles.

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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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Shades of Inequity: Why It’s Crucial to Diversify Medical Illustrations

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the article “Representations of Race and Skin Tone in Medical Textbook Imagery,” which presents findings from the analysis of 4,146 images from four widely used anatomy textbooks, the textbooks “overrepresent light skin tone and underrepresent dark skin tone.”

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