In today’s Race + Power newsletter, we look at challenges to racial equity and potential pathways forward.

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** Race + Power Weekly
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In today’s Race + Power newsletter, we look at challenges to racial equity and potential pathways forward. First, two articles from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s spring 2024 issue: one about the “glass cliff” Black women leaders are experiencing ([link removed]) , causing severe burnout and often departure; the other about LGBTQ+ community centers ([link removed]) as spaces that generate meaningful action on the challenges facing Black women and trans leaders. Next, a Baltimore-based initiative seeks to use recoverable grants ([link removed]) to address inequity. Finally, a clip from our recent webinar about making hard choices
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It Isn’t Just Lonely at the Top, It’s Downright Scary: The Reckoning Needed for Black Women Leaders ([link removed])
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“On any given day, there are countless trade-offs, tensions to balance, and difficult choices that must lead to decisions. Trust must include acknowledgment of these, and it must include space for Black women to do, to experiment, to make mistakes, and to pivot, without the automatic penalty of mistrust.” Read more... ([link removed])

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Two Weeks in, I Already Wanted to Quit: Challenges Faced by a Queer Black Woman in Nonprofit Leadership ([link removed])
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“Failing cannot be an opportunity for growth or learning for us, because for Black women and gender-expansive communities, failure is not an option.” Read more... ([link removed])

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When people can safely get an abortion, it not only improves their quality of life, but that of their families, communities, and even countries.
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Can Recoverable Grants Be Used to Address Racial Inequity in Funding? ([link removed])
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“Proponents of recoverable grants…contend that [they] help advance racial equity because when the money is returned, it is recycled to further fund other organizations.” Read more… ([link removed])
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From Incremental Change to Justice ([link removed])
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“I don’t know how we all feel about incrementalism, but it creates, like, indigestion for me.” Watch the video and read more… ([link removed])

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