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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

Fortunately, in recent years, some nonprofits have successfully diversified their boards, recruiting members with lived experiences that align with the communities being served by paying attention to demographics such as age, race, socioeconomic status, education, religion, disability, and diversity in thought and professional experience.

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  Freedom To Fight For DEI: How Legal Battles Affect Leadership Policies, Commitment

Fundraising Leadership

It’s about far more than public displays on social media, recruiting initiatives, one and done anti-bias and anti-harassment trainings.” Wendy Davis, author of The Fight You Don't See , tells Forbes , “Business will lead the way on DEI, not the government.” And that needs to be part of the story HR and DEI executives tell right now.”

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Liptrap “While Dorff admits he is ‘inspired’ by the social-entrepreneurship movement, he has no illusions about the benefit corporation. How does our recruiting need to change if we are drawing more on others in the ecosystem? Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Recruiting a cohort is tricky. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. With the focus community decided, it is then important to recruit people who are more likely to succeed. That only made the profit/loss calculation for childcare operators tighter.

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Secure Your Intention: Why You Need To Power Up At Women’s Equality Day Conference

Fundraising Leadership

The results showed that “female business network initiatives may constitute an inclusive policy of women entrepreneurship,” and lead to more success. According to Open Access Government, the benefits of mentorship, role modeling and networking are vast, particularly with women in STEM.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In January 2022, student recruitment began, with the goal of recruiting a total fellowship group of two or three students from each of five participating Bronx-based public high schools, allowing for a group of up to 15 student fellows.