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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

” Maryville University reports, “While the number of women working in law enforcement has increased significantly in recent decades, a gender gap persists — only 12% of sworn law enforcement officers at police agencies nationwide are women, according to Police1. . ” Maryville University reports, “The U.S.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

jp: First, we wanted to expand the conversation beyond race. As we travel the world, some places don’t even talk about race. So, India doesn’t specifically organize society around race, but it does organize itself around caste and Hinduism versus Islam. Du Bois talked about the color line. Everybody counts. That complicates it.

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

Bloomerang

The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. The universality of such wins illustrates why shared stewardship is such a powerful key to progress.

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Redesigning the Birth Experience of Native Parents: A Case Study of Community Codesign

NonProfit Quarterly

The hospital already had strong working partnerships with other communities, notably Latinx communities and also homeless populations, whose health disparities were strongly linked to their culture and existing societal inequities.

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Where’s the Love: Is Your Communications Strategy LGBTQ Inclusive?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

When people think about cultural competency, they tend to talk in terms of race, ethnicity, gender and religion. While a student at the University of Puerto Rico, Victoria became the first openly transgender member of student government and pushed the school’s administration for transgender accessible I.D.