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    Public Transport Needs Revival

    Smart Cities Dive Dec 5, 2021

    Remote work, changes in ridership and financial pressures created by the pandemic revealed the strengths and weaknesses of current transit networks. At the CoMotion LA conference last week, transportation leaders…

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    How to Make Your Nonprofit Board Effective

    Forbes Dec 5, 2021

    Your board casts the vision for the work and mission of your nonprofit organization. Nevertheless, the ideas and talents of nonprofit board members are sometimes underutilized, neglecting a potential catalyst…

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    How Nonprofits Can Advocate for Healing and Truth From Indigenous Boarding Schools

    BoardSource Dec 5, 2021

    In May, the world looked on in horror as a mass grave of 215 children’s remains was located using ground-penetrating radar at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. It…

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    Environmentally Minded AI Can Help Solve Climate Change

    GreenBiz Dec 4, 2021

    With record heat waves globally and extreme flooding affecting Europe and China, now is a pivotal moment to interrogate the interplay of technology and the environment, including the role of…

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    Avoiding Escalation Crises with Deterrence Theory

    RAND Corporation Dec 4, 2021

    Escalation is a natural tendency in any form of human competition. When such competition entails military confrontation, the pressure to escalate can become intense, and the consequences of escalation can…

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    The Crucial Role of Desegregation in Ending Homelessness

    Brookings Dec 2, 2021

    This November marked the annual Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week­—aptly timed to coincide with the season of giving, celebrations of harvest plenty, and, in much of the country, the arrival…

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    How Green Banking Contributes to Sustainability

    Grist Dec 1, 2021

    Green banks – financial institutions or facilities dedicated to accelerating the shift to a sustainable economy – drove a record amount of clean energy investment last year. According to the Coalition…

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    How Nonprofit Leadership Can Pivot in Times of Crisis

    Forbes Dec 1, 2021

    Nonprofit businesses hit hard by the pandemic are looking for ways to survive. You can do more than stay open if you are clear about your mission and values and…

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    Building Board Support on Issues of Racial Equity: A Conversation with Sector Leaders

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy Nov 30, 2021

    Foundation and nonprofit leaders came together to discuss changes made to philanthropic practice in response to the crises of the last two years at CEP’s third 2021 Virtual Learning Session.…

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    Best Practices to Improve Aid Organizations’ Accountability Measures

    Forbes

    Aid organizations provide valuable help to those in need, often in times of crisis or vulnerability. However, it’s equally valuable for these humanitarian groups to be accountable for the aid…

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    POC-led Environmental Groups Are Engaged But Underfunded

    Philanthropy News Digest Nov 23, 2021

    U.S.-based environmental NGOs are employing more people of color, but foundations continue to disproportionately fund more white-led organizations than those led by people of color, a report from Green 2.0 finds. Based…

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    Innovative Ways to Keep Grocery Stores Open in Rural Communities

    YES! Magazine

    At 75, Linda Grotberg is more than ready to retire. Instead, however, the mother of 11 and grandmother of 40 manages a small grocery store in her hometown of Wimbledon,…

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