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May Cause Awareness: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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This is a month dedicated to celebrating the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and their many contributions and achievements throughout history. After the country’s bicentennial celebrations, Jew approached Representative Frank Horton of New York with the idea to create a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. The Change Network program launches next week in prototype form with a First Wave of twenty organizations (full list at the end of this post).

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

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stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. this new medium, we should not control people's choices. The John D.

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Juneteenth Resources

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National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. 1619 (New York Times). Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

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The American Immigration Council, established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration. Make the Road New York. Donate | Stay Informed | Twitter | Facebook. Donate | Take Action | Volunteer | Twitter | Facebook.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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Many of them do really meet our basic criteria of being women-led, of reflecting the work of a group of women, rather than just one or two individuals, and of really tackling critical human rights challenges and societal challenges in which women are playing key roles. It is a good thing we are doing this in Women's History Month.

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