Racial Justice Content Topic Results
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October 2017
Foundations for the Future: Empowerment Economics in the Native Hawaiian Context
Publisher(s):Hawaiian Community Assets (HCA), National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD), Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University (IASP), Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA)
This report offers insight into the challenges and opportunities of building wealth in Native Hawaiian communities, and fills a gap in research by shedding light on a group whose strengths and struggles are uniquely reflective of both indigenous histories and Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) experiences.
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September 2017
Be Her Resource: A Toolkit about School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
Publisher(s): This toolkit provides guiding principles and policy recommendations that are designed to improve interactions between girls of color and SROs, with the ultimate goal of reducing girls of colors’ disproportionate rates of contact with the juvenile justice system.
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September 2017
We Deserve Safety: Ending the Criminalization of Women & Girls of Color
Publisher(s): This briefing paper and fact sheet describe unique and particular ways in which girls and women of color experience racial profiling and criminalization across a range of situations and settings. YWCA references studies and reports that document patterns, trends, and statistical comparisons between racial and ethnic groups, as well as news articles and media accounts to illustrate experiences of women and girls of color.
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July 2017
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Homicides of Adult Women and the Role of Intimate Partner Violence — United States, 2003–2014
Publisher(s): Homicide is the most severe health outcome of violence against women. Findings from this study on female homicide data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) during 2003–2014 indicate that young women, particularly racial/ethnic minority women, were disproportionately affected.
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July 2017
NRCDV Key Empowerment Principles
Publisher(s): The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV) is a group of individuals collectively responsible for NRCDV as an empowerment and anti- racist organization. This document outlines key elements of empowerment that NRCDV as an organization has identified to strive while working together to dismantle individual, institutional, and cultural racism.
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June 2017
A to Z Advocacy Model: Asians and Pacific Islanders Build an Inventory of Evidence-Informed Practices
Publisher(s): The A-Z Advocacy Model captures a do-everything-it-takes approach by undertaking an inventory of practices and analyzing their underlying principles in API-serving programs.
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June 2017
Life in the Margins: Expanding Intimate Partner Violence Services for Women of Color by Using Data as Evidence
Publisher(s): This TA Guidance provides a broad perspective to the field that states that women of color lives matter, and that it is imperative that we reach out to the margins in order to bring the experiences of women of color to the center of our work.
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May 2017
Justice Doesn't Trickle Down: How Racialized and Gendered Rules Are Holding Women Back
Publisher(s): This paper describes in detail a wide range of disparities and inequities experienced by women of color across the domains of economics, safety, and health. It explains that these outcomes are not the result of individual ambition or aptitudes, as conservatives often suggest, but rather an outgrowth of a web of racialized and gendered rules—policies, institutions, and practices—that have emerged from the United States’ long history of racism and sexism.
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February 2017
Immigrant Crime Victim Access to Federally Assisted Housing
Publisher(s):This webinar presentation and accompanying materials offer information on government funded programs providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, public and assisted housing to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, stalking and dating violence.
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January 2017
Our Gender Revolution: Social Change to End Gender Violence Guide
Publisher(s):This guide is designed to be distributed to anti-violence program advocates and educators working with youth to create social change.
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January 2017
Taking Action on Board Diversity: Five Questions to Get You Started
Publisher(s): This brief document from BoardSource outlines five questions that nonprofit boards can ask themselves to guide changes in how board recruitment is done in order to assure more diverse and inclusive board membership.
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January 2017
Race to Lead: Confronting the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap
Publisher(s): Studies show the percentage of people of color in the executive director/CEO role has remained under 20% for the last 15 years even as the country becomes more diverse. This publication from the Building Movement Project examines key findings on widespread systemic barriers to leadership positions for people of color in the nonprofit sector and offers strategies to address these barriers.