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Place this image side-by-side with that of the city’s voting patterns and one conclusion is inescapable: it’s the same map. Those economically distressed, majority-Black neighborhoods receiving unprecedented investment voted to continue on that path. More prosperous, whiter neighborhoods that were watching those investments flow elsewhere voted to ... See more
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The Courageous Giving Framework: A Philanthropic Strategy to Build a Just Democracy - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Marsha Davisnonprofitquarterly.org
The Courageous Giving Framework™ is a philanthropic strategy that donors and their advisors can employ to ensure they are working with social justice movements to build a just, multiracial democracy. It calls for funders to be as ruthlessly strategic as our opposition and shift from a defensive posture to an offensive one.
I got TOTALLY called out for bad behavior today 😬…. by my OWN coach!
💡 “Have you noticed,” she asked me after years and years of working together, “that everytime you share your best ideas you begin with: this might sound weird, but…”?
🙏 Um, I DID NOT notice that. Even in a relationship I feel safe in, I was STILL feeling vulnerable about my nascent, creative ideas and hedging accordingly.
🙌 Grateful that she challenged me, asking: “how about instead of this might sound ‘weird’ we replace ‘weird’ with magnificently unique?
❤️ Here’s a reminder that we are ALL full of magnificently unique ideas… and guilty of hedging them!
I’m sharing this excerpt of “16 Things I Forbid You To Say At Work” from my book as a reminder for us all: what would you add?
#womeninleadership #coaching #womensupportingwomen
Move Beyond Acknowledgment: Reparative Relationships with Indigenous Communities - Equity In The Center
Carly Hareequityinthecenter.org
Bodies of Evidence: The Criminalization of Abortion and Surveillance of Women in a Post-Dobbs World | Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
Stephanie Pelldjclpp.law.duke.edu
People sometimes ask me if I find it problematic to use they/them as singular pronouns. You’re an English professor, they say. How can you embrace “grammatically incorrect” pronouns?
The notion that nonbinary pronouns, such as the singular “they,” is a new phenomenon is wrong. The Oxford English Dictionary traces back the first written use of a sin