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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Its board actions might be reversed because they were not taken pursuant to the organizations bylaws or applicable corporate laws. Ensure activities are operated consistent with all applicable laws , including Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code and any licensing, registration, zoning, and contractual requirements.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

27 In an interview with Lanclos, Jared Bostic, deputy Geographic Information Officer with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, noted how he used GIS to record “tornado swaths” and “mapped an impact summary,” calculating the affected population, households, and businesses. Sources: S.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 5 This brings forth other pressing questions, such as: How are AI datasets acquired in the first place? 10 Only 35.1

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

NonProfit Quarterly

When the Neak Ta Cries Our interviewees were from Srekor and Kbal Romeas—ethnically mixed communities, according to our interviewees, comprising roughly 500 families of marginalized groups, notably ethnic Lao and ethnic Bunong people, who settled on the land bordering the Sesan River after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, in 1979.

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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

In granting standing, Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, part of a two-judge majority held “Although Fearless will presumably need to change its contest rules to bring itself into compliance with § 1981, that burden pales in comparison to the interest in rooting out race discrimination in all its forms. We are evaluating all of our options.”

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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.