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    Tips for Higher Education Institutions to Prepare for Online Learning

    Higher Education Dive Oct 4, 2021

    Much to everyone’s concern, the Delta variant is rapidly spreading in the U.S. – and it’s causing higher ed leaders to question whether they must alter their autumn semester plans.…

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    Why Donors Should Eliminate Pitch-based Funding Competitions

    Nonprofit AF Oct 4, 2021

    The idea of “pitching” is not new. We have been trained to do “elevator pitches” that are supposed to be pithy yet moving, sincere yet polished, inspiring yet grounded, all…

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    Party Affiliation Stronger Predictor of COVID-19 Vaccination Status Than Race and Ethnicity

    Giving Compass Oct 4, 2021

    At the beginning of the COVID-19 vaccination push nine months ago, many experts worried—with justification—that people of color would be left behind. Sadly, it is a well-established fact that people…

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    Urban Farms Designed to Combat Food Inequity

    Brooklyn Paper Oct 4, 2021

    Citing food inequity among the borough’s minority population, a local nonprofit has opened an urban farm in Brownsville to provide healthy food to the local community, which suffers from high…

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    How Mass Incarceration Has Caused COVID Numbers to Skyrocket

    Prison Policy Initiative

    Over half a million COVID-19 cases this summer were directly linked to mass incarceration, a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative and Professor Gregory Hooks shows. The study provides the first…

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    Holding Corporations Accountable for the Plastic Crisis

    Grist Oct 4, 2021

    If you’ve ever tossed a plastic water bottle in a trash can and felt a wave of guilt wash over you, well, judging by its marketing campaigns, that’s exactly how…

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    Can a Shift to an “Impact Economy” Solve Philadelphia’s Complex Problems?

    Giving Compass Oct 4, 2021

    Part one in a multi-part series. Read parts two, three, and four. With nearly a quarter of its population at or below the poverty line, Philadelphia is the poorest large city in…

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    Chad and Tenah Dyer: Shifting Mindset from Donations → Asset Transfer to Build Community Economic Power

    Time to Act Oct 4, 2021

    About Chad and Tenah Dyer Issue area: Just Transition to a more sustainable world Geographic focus: San Francisco Bay Area, California Giving vehicle: Donor-advised Fund, Impact Investing, Asset Transfer, Board…

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    Climate Positive Financing in Sea Farming

    GreenMoney Journal Oct 4, 2021

    This article was originally published by GreenMoney Journal as part of its September 2021 “Oceans & Climate” issue. Article reprinted with permission. Adapting to and combating climate change through aquaculture investment When it comes…

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    Texas Schools See More COVID-19 Cases in 2 Months Than Entire Last School Year

    The 74 Oct 4, 2021

    Students in Texas public schools are facing another year upturned by COVID-19 as the highly contagious delta variant spreads, mask mandates are inconsistent and children under 12 cannot yet be…

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    Assisting Families Affected by Disasters and Emergencies

    PhilanTopic Oct 4, 2021

    On September 11, 2001, 658 Cantor Fitzgerald and sixty-one Eurobrokers employees lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund was founded on September…

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    Housing Solutions: Collective Impact Through Cross-sector Partnerships

    Silicon Valley Community Foundation

    We know the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities, taking an exceptionally hard toll on the most vulnerable communities, experiencing housing instability, homelessness and racial disparities. In this episode, Jennifer…

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