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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. Dissatisfied employees heighten legal risks.

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

NonProfit Leadership Center

Even though that number has increased over the years, she continued to see a lack of representation at the C-suite and senior leadership levels of organizations. "I I know there are individuals like me who are qualified to be in leadership positions in the community. I found myself constantly asking why they weren't there.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The relationship between AI and health, environmental sustainability, and humanitarian efforts is complex. Ferres spoke with NPQ about his book, AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health , which he coauthored with William B. The challenge with disposable income is that it isn’t directly observable.

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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a physician and public health professional, these formative traditional values and beliefs have guided my personal journey toward promoting equity. Races and ethnicities in the United States are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). What’s In a Name? They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.

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Advancing racial equity for effective environmental grantmaking 

Candid

Together, we are reducing the reporting burden on nonprofits and supporting the sector to better track funding disparities discernible in relation to race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and ability status. EGA is also wasting no time to realize the potential of carefully collected data to advance racial equity in the field.

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Measure what matters: collect data with intention 

MNA Association

It can be a headache for staff, burdensome to program participants, and a source of ongoing frustration to organization leadership who just want to communicate the powerful work they know is happening(!!). Collecting data on race and ethnicity allows us to identify inequities and ensure more just programs and services.