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Race + Power Weekly

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, causing severe burnout and often departure; the other about LGBTQ+ community centers 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 to address inequity. Finally, a clip from our recent webinar about making hard choices that keep movements on the path toward justice.


It Isn’t Just Lonely at the Top, It’s Downright Scary: The Reckoning Needed for Black Women Leaders

 
“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... 
 
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Two Weeks in, I Already Wanted to Quit: Challenges Faced by a Queer Black Woman in Nonprofit Leadership

 
“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... 
 
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Can Recoverable Grants Be Used to Address Racial Inequity in Funding?

 
“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…


From Incremental Change to Justice

 
“I don’t know how we all feel about incrementalism, but it creates, like, indigestion for me.” Watch the video and read more…
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