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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades.

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Enough Is Enough: Leading With Equity in 2025 and Beyond For Success

Fundraising Leadership

Read more updates on DEI in Take The Lead Science Daily reports, "Our society benefits when we have women as well as men as leaders in politics and business," observes Rachel Godsil, a professor at Rutgers Law School, co-founder of Perception Institute, and one of the paper's authors. "It

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

NonProfit Leadership Center

I want to be a part of the solution and not sit idly by as a spectator while gentrification, racial injustice, inflation and biased laws gut our communities.” Their race or ethnicity have unjustly served as roadblocks in their careers due to the inequitable systems that continue to impact our society today.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

We Must Build Parameters to Protect People from AI Creators and AI Creators from Themselves In the rush to lead the global AI race, it can be tempting to prioritize innovation, speed, and profit without pausing to consider the profound ethical, societal, and human consequences.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. A 2019 report from a government study found “false positives to be between 2 and 5 times higher in women than men.”

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Coffee Companies That Emphasize Hiring Disabled Workers Fall Short

NonProfit Quarterly

In] 36 states, federal law continues to permit subminimum wages for workers with disabilities. By law, they are allowed to pay lower than the minimum wage. It should be noted that 14 states have passed laws to ban this. The majority of these 120,000 workers are people who have intellectual or developmental disabilities.

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Indigenous Land Return as Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

That land is forever off the speculative market, so we’ll always take care of that land,” says Gould. For example, working with the East Bay-based Sustainable Economies Law Center, Sogorea Te’ is developing legal pathways so that everyday people and entities can help in Indigenous land rematriation.