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    Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy with Vaccine Incentives

    Global Citizen May 21, 2021

    A growing number of states, cities, and companies are offering incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated. And the sweeteners keep getting bigger and better. New Jersey, for example, is picking up the…

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    Struggles for Homeless Students Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

    Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness

    The integral role that schools play in the lives of students experiencing homelessness and the many challenges they face have never been clearer as the threat of coronavirus continues to…

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    The Impact of Racism on Biodiversity and the Environment

    Futurity

    The researchers examined more than 170 published studies and analyzed the influence of systemic inequalities on ecology and evolution. The paper in Science calls on the scientific community to focus on environmental…

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    How Juvenile-justice Schools Harm Native American Youth

    The Hechinger Report

    If schools in juvenile-justice facilities are a young person’s last chance to get back on track, our latest research shows that these institutions are failing. Students in juvenile-justice facilities often…

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    How Theater Can Help Communities Heal From the Losses and Trauma of the Pandemic

    The Conversation May 21, 2021

    President Joe Biden began his presidency by memorializing the 400,000 American lives that had been lost up to that point to COVID-19. The ceremony, held on the steps of the…

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    Take the Ethical Storytelling Pledge

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy May 21, 2021

    Thanks to the digital age, we live in a new era of storytelling. Whether through blogs, emails, social media, or video, using stories to highlight an organization’s impact is an…

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    Visual Tools for Advancing Equity in Grantmaking

    PEAK Grantmaking May 21, 2021

    Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown opened with the spiritual, “I Know I Have Been Changed.” What an inspiring way to begin PEAK2021! LaTosha shared her four-V strategy—vision, voice, values,…

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    The Continued Prevalence of Corporal Punishment in Schools

    The 74 May 21, 2021

    When a Florida elementary school principal was caught on video spanking a 6-year-old girl with a wooden paddle last month, it sparked national outrage and a criminal investigation. But for…

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    Tips for Fostering Effective Foundation Trustee Strategies

    Exponent Philanthropy May 21, 2021

    Foundation trustees have many responsibilities, but fulfilling their legal duties probably tops the list. As such, it’s important that you know the rules and where trustees trip up most. Beyond…

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    SVP Cleveland Discusses Charitable Giving With an Equity Lens

    NCRP May 21, 2021

    NCRP’s Power Moves team chatted recently with Emily Troia, manager of partner engagement and communications for Social Venture Partners (SVP) Cleveland. As NCRP expands its focus beyond grantmaking institutions to influence individual donors, SVP Cleveland’s story offers insight into the ways Power…

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    What We’ve Learned from More than a Century of Place-Based Investment 
in Rural Alabama

    Alabama Power Foundation May 20, 2021

    [Photo Credit: Alabama Power Foundation] Alabama is a place I am proud to call home. As a native Alabamian, I have seen firsthand how the state continues to evolve for the…

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    Youth Leadership Addresses Challenges in Foster Care

    Stanford Social Innovation Review May 20, 2021

    “Nothing about us, without us,” is a rallying cry that originated in the disability rights movement, but it has been widely adopted by young people who have been in foster…

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