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Social Transformation for Your Nonprofit– Live Q&A
December 9, 2021 | 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET, 12 noon CT (60 minutes) The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) are leaders in the movement to undo racism. Since 1980, over 2 million people have participated in PISAB’s Undoing Racism®/Communit …
Practical Guide to How Nonprofits Can Create Equity in Organizations and Community
In May 2020, when Black Lives Matter protests ignited by the murder of George Floyd erupted across the country, many organizations started becoming more aware of the need to challenge racism and to encourage racial equity in their own spaces. At Race F …
How to Use Asset-Framing to Strengthen Nonprofit Work
In The Antidote, a new documentary created in response to growing divisions of our times, award-winning filmmakers John Hoffman and Kahane Cooperman tell the stories of nine ordinary people using “kindness, decency, and the power of community” to find …
How to Build a Compassionate Workplace
Methods for interacting with emotional labor that create a net positive for everyone in your nonprofit organization.
Emotional Labor and Othering: Understanding Terms to Create Equity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Workplace
A Background to “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” You’ve read “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” and have questions about one branch of othering: emotional labor. This article is intended to provide background and resources to support you. …
Five Examples of Gen Z Innovators Tackling Social Isolation
In the spring of Aditi Merchant’s freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin, the entire country began shutting down. Aditi should have been filling her time with mind-expanding classes, all-night study sessions, fun parties, and summer plans. …
Are Your Nonprofit Organization’s Stories Dishonoring the Families You Serve?
We have a problem in this country with the idea of a class system. Please indulge me the time to paint a picture of the backdrop against which many of us work but don’t often acknowledge. I will then use that backdrop to illustrate the challenge of dis …
Seizing Social Capital to Empower Nonprofit Leaders
Explore the role of social capital and discover key attributes and assets of social capital that nonprofits can use to their advantage.
Seeking Sustainability: How Can Nonprofits Survive the Pandemic?
Here in Los Angeles, leaders across the region are working to identify ways to safely reopen the economy. Some sectors are eager to get back to business, while others are worried about whether or not it is safe to return. But for the most part, the non …
In the Shadow of the Pandemic, Nonprofits Form Partnerships to Expand the Meaning of Healthcare
Nonprofits in healthcare are expanding the scope of their services through partnerships with housing authorities. Are you using strategic partnerships to address a multifaceted problem in your community? Let us know. During the Covid-19 pandemic, nonpr …
