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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

They also had access to forests where they could collect timber and non-timber forest products such as mushrooms. Despite the community’s disapproval, government officials had apparently already approved and funded the plan. The villagers were moved to a resettlement miles away that lacked clean water and fertile soil for crops.

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

NonProfit Leadership Center

Last year's 2022 fellows reported a 52% increase in their board governance knowledge and skills after completing the program. This program is an opportunity to immerse myself in comprehensive board governance training, allowing me to be more impactful while doing so in a nonprofit board setting.”

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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

If you have a thousand people who take out a loan, knowing their race or ethnicity will tell you very little about who will repay the loan. You can observe income and you can observe demographic characteristics like race. And because disposable income varies by race, it could be used as an indicator of who will repay the loan.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

This put pressure on governments, institutions, and other organizations to proactively engage in racial justice reform within healthcare and medicine. Instead, it is the product of extraction, of exploitation, of displacement, of violence. Most recently, HeLa cells were used in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is the attitudes and skills that enable individuals to use their competencies and become more productive and efficient. It is also about gender, race, and prejudices across society. Ethnic Markers and Crisis Impact Racial distinction speaks loud and clear to most of the Black population in Brazil.

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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

It is extremely important to trust the company whose products people put in their body,” says Bourla. “An government at cost, which the federal government gave for free. We are looking at the experiences of marginalized racial and ethnic groups,” Ohm says.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.