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In conversation: using data and education to advance racial equity at MEASURE

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Meme: MEASURE works to use data and education to mobilize communities to fight structural racism and eliminate social disparities. Meme: In 2019, we used the CARE Model to launch the award-winning Innocence Initiative. Candid's team reached out to Meme recently to learn more about the work MEASURE is doing in Austin, TX.

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Lessons from 2019 to maximize future disaster giving decisions

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upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. .

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Is There Racial Bias in Awarding Federal Grants?

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2019 , Ginther et al., For example, in fiscal year 2019 the largest federal grant-making agency, the U.S. Without data to perform the type of analysis that NIH has done, there is no way to inform policy changes that would affect the equitable distribution of funds across the grants process. 2016 , Ginther et al.,

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Learning by Doing Together: Improving Education Policy in Puerto Rico through a Research-Practice Partnership

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In September 2017, the devastating force of Hurricane María destabilized the entirety of the island’s service infrastructure, public education included. Equitably addressing students’ educational needs in a surprisingly heterogeneous school district—the fifth largest in the U.S.—is is complex.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Black Business Community – Overcoming Challenges to Flourish

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Jordan Sr founded National Black Business as an annual observance in 2004 to “drive the policy agenda affecting the 2.6 From 2019 to 2020, Black-owned businesses grew by 6,351 firms, or 4.72% – behind Latino or Hispanic (8.19%) and Asian American (5.33%) firms, but ahead of white-owned businesses, which shrunk by 0.9%.

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Cultivating Empathy in School-Parent Communications

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Stanford University psychologist Jamil Zaki, PhD , describes empathy as the “psychological ‘superglue’ that connects people and undergirds cooperation and kindness” (The Economist, June 7, 2019). In addition to your code of conduct, the handbook should include your mission statement, school calendar, policies, and procedures.