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    The Emotional Challenges of Altruism

    Effective Altruism Forum

    One of the most valuable things I’ve heard in the past couple of years is a string of entrepreneurs admitting that steering your own course is hard and explaining some of the…

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    Technology Is Not Enough for Impactful Social Change

    Stanford Social Innovation Review

    When Okey Okuzu first started using mobile technology to track health data in Nigeria, the system he used relied on texting via a simple mobile phone. The platform was a…

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    How Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Became a Global Leader in Testing COVID-19 Vaccines

    Global Washington Mar 26, 2021

    When COVID-19 first made landfall in the U.S. last year, it made its grand entrance in Snohomish County, Washington, and eventually turned Seattle into the country’s “coronavirus capital” for some…

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    Fighting for Environmental Justice in NYC’s Affordable Housing Developments

    WE ACT for Environmental Justice Mar 26, 2021

    It is well-documented that some of the most polluted environments in America are where people of color live, work, play, and pray. Environmental racism increases pollution levels not only in…

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    Tax Evasion By America’s Wealthiest One Percent

    Equitable Growth Mar 26, 2021

    How much taxes do high-income Americans evade? And what kinds of evasion tactics do they use? These questions are important for tax enforcement policies and the measurement of income inequality…

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    Suggested Board and Governance Practices

    BoardSource

    The BoardSource Recommended Governance Practices reflect BoardSource’s decades of experience working with tens of thousands of nonprofit board leaders and conducting extensive research on board practices. They highlight essential, leading,…

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    The Importance of Disaggregated  Data in Accurate Collection

    Urban Institute

    Surveys, datasets, and published research often lump together racial and ethnic groups, which can erase the experiences of certain communities. Combining groups with different experiences can mask how specific groups…

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    Women’s Sports Coverage Has Not Changed in Three Decades

    Futurity Mar 25, 2021

    When women receive airtime, the coverage is lower in technical quality and production value when compared with coverage of men’s sports, the study finds. Even when social and digital media are…

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    How Improvements in Public Housing Can Impact Public Health

    The Conversation Mar 25, 2021

    During a presidential election debate on Oct. 22, 2020, former President Donald Trump railed against Democratic proposals to retrofit homes. “They want to take buildings down because they want to…

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    School Districts Share Insight on the Importance of Building Relationships During COVID

    EdSurge Mar 25, 2021

    When schools shuttered suddenly more than a year ago, teachers and staff scrambled to recreate their school communities as best they could in a virtual environment. And while teaching and…

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    How Nonprofits Can Take Action to Spur Equitable Change

    Forbes Mar 25, 2021

    Nonprofit leaders play a critical role in tackling the opportunity gap. The events of the past year highlighted the acute need to provide resources to support the private sector in…

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    Think About Rural America As a Place and Not As an Issue

     PhilanthropywoRx Mar 25, 2021

    It’s been well documented that rural America represents 97% of the land in the United States; 19% of the people, and some of the fastest (and slowest) growing places in…

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