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Creating partnerships: Closing the gender pay gap by challenging the status quo together 

Candid

This year, Equal Pay Day —which indicates how far into the year a woman must work to receive the same wage that a man received the previous year—fell on March 12. Three key factors include a lack of strong work-family policies, occupational segregation, and gender discrimination.

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How can nonprofits implement a strategic public policy agenda to achieve greater impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Public policy and the nonprofit sector. Public policy at all levels of government has the ability to threaten the work of all nonprofits (National Council of Nonprofits, 2019). At the federal level, we see this threat in tax, regulatory, and spending policies. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Establish support.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

.orgSource

Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization. Part of the task will be to identify whether working from home is the root cause of issues. Don’t forget volunteers.

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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) declared a national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people on June 6, 2023, the first state of emergency ever declared in its history spanning four decades. Often, the central issue is a specific policy or a cultural phenomenon that the organization seeks to promote or eliminate.

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VisionLink’s Strategic Advantage Department Produces Complete College America’s National STEM Careers Academy

VisionLink

CompleteCollege.org With funding from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, Complete College America (CCA) is working to dramatically increase the number of college students obtaining high-demand STEM degrees (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

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The 2024 Best NPOs To Work For: Data Shows Satisfaction Slipping In Some Areas

The NonProfit Times

Note: See all the Best Nonprofits To Work For stories in the 4/1 digital edition … [link] ** There are some surprises in the data from 2023 for this year’s The NonProfit Times ’ “Best Nonprofits To Work For.” Offices were shuttered and work from home setups proliferated. Stress soared.

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Closing racial wealth gaps with community land trusts 

Candid

Beyond making us less competitive in the global economy, growing wealth inequality puts our democracy at risk; in a nation of “haves” and “have nots,” elite interests are completely removed from the needs of regular people. According to the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy , there are now over 300 community land trusts in the U.S.