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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Unfortunately, it’s the same in the nonprofit sector.

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Emerging technological innovations in healthcare have the potential to transform public health and healthcare delivery systems, making them more efficient, personalized, and accessible. Consequently, communities that were already marginalized continued to face limited access to essential healthcare services.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: The Generational Impact of Women in Leadership

The Charity CFO

That’s a Great IDEA The mission and vision of Capital IDEA is to lift working adults out of poverty and into living-wage careers through education and career advancement. Many of those who have gone through their program will end up in healthcare, IT, trades and advanced manufacturing. But, how exactly?

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One in Five Nonprofit Workers Can’t Afford Basic Expenses

NonProfit Quarterly

If we were only using the federal poverty level…we would only see 5 percent of [nonprofit] workers struggling,” Hoopes tells NPQ. As Hoopes pointed out, the federal poverty measure is outdated, based on a 1960s formula that assumed food was the largest household expense—an assumption that no longer holds true today.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. Here are three lessons that were key to his approach to leadership: 1. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness. The report listed recommendations across the board from what healthcare professionals to communities can do to combat loneliness, including recommendations for philanthropy.