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🎉New blog post!🎉 MSC staff visited Saginaw, Mich., and spent time with our partners @the_neighb and Saginaw Just Transition Indaba (SJTI) earlier this year. Learn more about these organizations and their uplifting work, at the link! movementstrategy.org/blog_po…
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🔋🪫Generators are an essential in a world increasingly in need of disaster relief. @FootprintPrjct is replacing traditional generators with batteries charged by solar panels. Click the link to learn more! #EnvironmentalSustainability #DisasterRelief grist.org/energy/this-disast…

This disaster relief nonprofit is pioneering a clean energy alternative to noisy, polluting...

The Footprint Project wants to create a solar-powered microgrid “lending library” to deploy during disaster recovery efforts to reduce reliance on generators, which increase air pollution and are...

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🗄📋 Some of the nation's most important documents are housed at the National Archives. Staff are facing backlash after recent decisions that paint a sanitized picture of U.S. history. Click the link for more. binnews.com/content/2024-11-…

America's Top Archivist Accused Of Whitewashing National Museum | BIN: Black Information Network

America’s top archivist is being accused of whitewashing and deemphasizing negative parts of U.S. history in a popular, national museum.

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LA County is suing PepsiCo & Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, stating the companies "knowingly misled" consumers about recyclability. The 2 were recently found to be the world's top two #plasticpolluters. Does any of this shock you? More at the link. grist.org/accountability/la-…

LA County sues Pepsi and Coke over plastic pollution and false advertising

The lawsuit says the companies knew the limitations of plastics recycling but promoted it anyway.

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🍎 Lack of money and/or financial literacy often results in food insecurity among college students. Click the link for @bioneers interview with Tim Galarneau, who works to combat student hunger @ucsc. #NoChildHungry bioneers.org/the-dark-secret…

The Dark Secret of Student Hunger: An Interview of Tim Galarneau of the University of California -...

Entering college can be a source of pride and expanded opportunity, but for those who don’t have the finances to pay for increasing tuition and high housing and food costs, it can be, according to...

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Did you know that #Native Americans in Flagstaff have been arrested at a higher rate than white people, most often for misdemeanor quality-of-life crimes? Explore Urban’s #research that highlights racial disparities & how #equity could be advanced. urbn.is/40NcFfO

Exploring Racial Disparities in Arrests among Native Americans in Flagstaff, Arizona

To work toward racial equity, police departments in Flagstaff and around the country should decriminalize quality-of-life offenses and provide culturally res…

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Norway plans to enforce a strict minimum age limit of 15 for users of social media. Click the link for more on the plan to shield children from the "power of the algorithms." theguardian.com/world/2024/o…

Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children

Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’

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Choreographer Bill T. Jones broke barriers with his romantic/business partner Arnie Zane (they founded @BTJAZCo in 1983) when homosexuality & HIV/AIDS were highly stigmatized. More on Jones and the restaging of his masterpiece "Still/Here" at the link! them.us/story/bill-t-jones-s…

Why Legendary Choreographer Bill T. Jones Is Restaging His AIDS-Era Masterpiece

Three decades since the premiere of Still/Here, the legendary choreographer discusses restaging his AIDS-era masterpiece and the privilege of dreaming.

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#Nehalennia, Dutch goddess of the sea, fertility, and rebirth, was originally worshiped in the pre-Christian times. Click the link for more on how she's been reintroduced as a way of understanding the modern #climatecrisis. yesmagazine.org/climate/2024…

Modern Climate Solutions from an Ancient Sea Goddess

In the Netherlands, where most people are non-religious, a scientist is using neopaganism to shift the dialogue around climate adaptation.

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📣📚 "If you do have a concern about a book ... read it." Click the link for more on a settlement that has 49/56 banned books returning to an Alaskan school district's shelves. Is it enough? adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2…

Mat-Su school district agrees to pay $89,000 in book removal settlement

The suit alleged the district violated students’ constitutional rights.

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✨ It's #NationalPhilanthropyDay! Darren Walker, president of @FordFoundation, spoke to Christiane Amanpour about social justice, capitalism, the arts, & "the business of hope." Watch the full interview at the link below! #TheBusinessOfHope edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/t…

‘We are in the business of hope’: How Darren Walker revolutionized philanthropy | CNN

Christiane Amanpour speaks to Darren Walker, after he announced he will be stepping down as President of the Ford Foundation in 2025. 

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"For far too long California's First People and their history have been ignored or misrepresented." More on how CA is righting educational wrongs when it comes to instruction about Indigenous people at the link! #EducationForAll #RepresentationMatters bit.ly/3Nh4sIH

New law requires California schools to teach about historical mistreatment of Native Americans

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For Johnny Hernandez Jr., vice chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Southern California, it was difficult as a kid growing up around San Bernardino to hear...

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Vu Le has been blogging on @NonprofitAF for over a decade. Earlier this year, he launched "Crappy Funding Practices," a LinkedIn page dedicated to making philanthropy more equitable. Click the link for more on Le & his work! #PhilanthropicEquity insidephilanthropy.com/home/…

Talking the Good and Bad of Philanthropy with Vu Le

A conversation on hot-button topics with one of the philanthrosphere’s most compelling interrogators of the status quo.

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New York isn't New York without artists! @ArtsCRNY are calling for the state's policymakers to develop a strategic plan to grow a statewide #creativeeconomy. #SolidarityEconomy creativesrebuildny.org/2024/… 📷Image credits: Creatives Rebuild NY
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"Generosity [is] the fuel in the tank as far as American civil society goes … a deeply held & widely shared value amongst diverse people." @Philanthropy unpacks #TheGenerosityCommission's study on the decline in charitable giving at the link. philanthropy.com/article/ame…

America’s Giving Crisis — and the Plan to Fix It

Generosity Commission concludes a three-year study with a roadmap to boost charitable giving and volunteering in the U.S.

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Theresa Harlan, founder/director of MSC partner @felix_alliance, recently joined a discussion on #allyship between an Indigenous family and colonial settler family in Point Reyes, CA! Click the link below for the recording! #LandBack kwmr.org/post/163755
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✨🏳️‍⚧️ Trans activist #CeciliaGentili, who died in Feb., published a memoir-in-letters in 2022. @BookRiot on "Faltas," which is full of letters to the women who helped shape Gentilli's life. *adds to #TBR list* #Faltas bookriot.com/faltas-cecilia-…

A Memoir of a Beloved Trans Activist, Author, and Artist

FALTAS by beloved trans activist Cecilia Gentili is a beautiful, heartbreaking, celebratory book about survival and what comes next.

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✨🪡 @bronze_bombSHEL is a well-known voice on Black fashion, its history, and its icons. She recently launched her own publishing house & released her 1st book, "Black Fashion Legends ABC." Click the link for her interview with @Essence! essence.com/fashion/shelby-i…

Shelby Ivey Christie On Launching Haute Heritage Publishing And Her Book Honoring Black Fashion...

In conversation, Christie, a fashion and costume historian details launching her publishing company that she is hopeful will shake up the luxury fashion industry.

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✨📚 Any guesses on what the late fee is for a library book that's 101 years overdue? Click the link for more a recently-returned #Shakespeare book that was originally due in 1923! nytimes.com/2024/10/24/nyreg…

This Library Book Was Due in 1923. It Was Returned Last Month. (Published 2024)

A Colorado woman was decluttering, when she found something that had belonged to her grandmother: “Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth.”

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