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    Shaping Value-driven Leadership into Philanthropy

    Exponent Philanthropy Sep 30, 2021

    As vice president, professional learning & family philanthropy, Kameron Green is a leader in developing and implementing professional learning and programs for Southern California Grantmakers. Kameron innovated SCG’s programming to include a whole…

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    Expanding Veteran Philanthropy to Make an Impact

    Exponent Philanthropy Sep 30, 2021

    As CEO of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, Anne Marie Dougherty’s approach to philanthropy is entrepreneurial, data-driven, and systems-oriented. Under Anne Marie’s leadership, the foundation is breaking out of the veteran philanthropy silo and…

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    How to Best Serve Black-led Organizations

    Exponent Philanthropy Sep 30, 2021

    As program officer at the POISE Foundation, Traci Johnson helps Black-led, Black-serving organizations bring change to their communities. During the pandemic, Traci recognized Black-led organizations and communities were far more impacted. She wanted…

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    Why We Need to Implement Long-term Cleaning Standards for School Districts

    EdSource Sep 29, 2021

    With schools opening for full-time in-person instruction, there has never been more attention paid to the cleanliness of our classrooms and campuses. Disinfecting protocols, air filtration systems and the frequency…

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    Empowering Black-owned Businesses to Support Community Resilience

    LISC Sep 29, 2021

    There aren’t many places in America where you can pick up a home-recipe, cooked-to-order chili cheese dog for $3.60, much less a vegan chili cheese dog for an even $6. But the purveyor of this awesome deal, Jordan’s…

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    Lessons on Catalyzing Local Philanthropy in Silicon Valley

    Medium Sep 29, 2021

    We created Magnify to help fully realize the opportunity to activate Silicon Valley’s breathtaking financial resources for good, and invest in the nonprofits in our own backyard, so that every…

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    We Must Fund Grassroots Organizers for Sustained Equitable Change

    Giving Compass Sep 29, 2021

    Since my column in August, Hurricane Ida battered New Orleans and its power grid, an abortion ban took effect in Texas, border agents on horseback were filmed chasing and whipping…

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    How Strategic Clarity Helped One Nonprofit Deliver Its Message to Staff, Constituents, and Funders

    The Bridgespan Group Sep 29, 2021

    In 2009, Stan Jones, a longtime education advocate and Indiana’s Commissioner for Higher Education, founded Complete College America (CCA) with the goal of helping get “more students into more colleges to earn…

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    R. Kelly Was Aided By a Network of Complicity – Common in Workplace Abuse

    The Conversation Sep 29, 2021

    R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges on Sept 27, 2021, having been exposed as the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit girls,…

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    Can Healthy People Who Eat Right and Exercise Skip the COVID-19 Vaccine? No

    The Conversation Sep 29, 2021

    I’m a fitness enthusiast. I also adhere to a nutrient-dense, “clean” eating program, which means I minimize my sugar intake and eat a lot of whole foods for the purpose…

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    Inclusive Leadership: Sharing the Power, Building Powerful Voices

    B the Change

    Sweet Livity’s mission — “Values toward wellness” — guides its business model and services, based on years of community development work in diverse urban and rural communities. The company has…

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    What Donors Need to Know About the Fight Over Critical Race Theory

    Raikes Foundation Sep 29, 2021

    Just a few years ago if you said the phrase “Critical Race Theory” to someone outside of a law school, they almost certainly would have had no idea what you…

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