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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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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. Yale Universitys latest estimates also propose that the countrys failing mental health systems cost the United States $282 billion every year. 10 Only 35.1

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How to Build a Just and Effective Public Sector Workforce System

NonProfit Quarterly

Members of vulnerable groups continue to face systemic challenges that correlate with race, ethnicity, gender, age, and geography. For instance, Black workers consistently face higher unemployment than White workers with the same educational attainment, skills, or residential location, regardless of other factors.

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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. If we won’t save ourselves then no one will.

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Enough Is Enough: Leading With Equity in 2025 and Beyond For Success

Fundraising Leadership

A new report this month out of New York University shows that reframing this gender gap in American culture across all industries as "men's overrepresentation" instead of "women's underrepresentation" elicits more anger in men and women claiming injustice, while it causes more women to take action.

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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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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

Researchers and mental-health practitioners from Northwestern University, the Mayo Clinic, and the Institute of Therapy through the Arts have joined forces to examine how music-based therapy can improve social engagement among patients with dementia. Who is impacted by dementia? In the US, one in 10 older Americans have dementia.

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