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Pressed by legislator, nonprofit foundations agree to invest in minority-led organizations
Original Source By Aurelio Rojas Faced with legislation that would require them to disclose their ethnic composition and detail grants awarded to minority organizations, 10 of California’s largest foundations agreed Monday to a multimillion-dollar, multiyear investment in minority communities. In return, Assemblyman Joe Coto, D-San…
Author: The Sacramento Bee
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Letters to the Editor: Philanthropy and Racism
Original Source To the Editor: Structural-racism training programs have helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations and community foundations, many of which are administered or operated by white people but primarily serve people of color, learn how to orient their theories of change from charity to empowerment…
Author: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
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Event Marks Opening Of New UCL Cancer Institute, UK
A state-of-the-art new premises accommodating hundreds of cancer research scientists will officially open at UCL (University College London). The UCL Cancer Institute, housed in the £40 million Paul O’Gorman building, is situated at the heart of one of the largest and most prolific biomedical facilities…
Author: Medical News Today
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Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays in the New South Africa: Still Much Work to Do
Zoliswa Nkonyana, Zizakele Sigasa, and Salome Masooa helped me to understand the critical importance of Atlantic’s work to support the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered and intersex people in South Africa. Sadly, these young women were not among the many South Africans I…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Filling the Void
Introducing the 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners–25 entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. Because they can’t stand a vacuum. The entrepreneurial mind abhors a vacuum. Market failures, unmet demand, even the maddening lure of a blank napkin–all beckon as explicit…
Author: Fast Company