Equity & Inclusion. August 2020

Business as usual is diversity & inclusion.

COVID-19, Black Lives Matters has changed the issue to equity & inclusion.

A nonprofit needs you. August 2020. Get your fundraising certificate.

 

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NIMH Instagram Event: Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents. Q&A August 2020

 

NEWS AND EVENTS

NIMH Instagram Event: Anxiety and Stress in Children and Adolescents Going back to school can be stressful, especially with the added uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. NIMH is hosting a Q&A on its Instagram story for parents, educators, and teens on August 11 at 1 p.m. ET. During this event, you will be able to ask Krystal Lewis, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist at NIMH, questions you have about stress or anxiety in children and adolescents, as well as how to cope.  Learn how to participate

GATEKEEPER. Part 1. Are you a gatekeeper keeping the status quo and 'business as usual? August 10 2020.

 Are you a gatekeeper controlling who progresses within your organization? 

Are you a gatekeeper excluding others from advancing, accepting new ideas, different perspectives for change to take place in your community? 

Are you a gatekeeper excluding the average individual in education with a 1.5 or 2.0 GPA with others with a 3.5 or 4.0 GPA your main focus? 

Are you a gatekeeper focusing your efforts and attention on one sexual or orientated group (Black Females, LGBT, etc.) and excluding the opposite that subconsciously leaves no hope for the other (Black & Latino Males, etc.) to participate? 

Are YOU a gatekeeper? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper 

 ".......One critique of gatekeeping roles is the potential to create or reinforce inequality, for example if entry is made more difficult for minority applicants or artists. For example, Bernardine Evaristo was only the first black woman to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize in fiction in 2019, a joint award with author Margaret Atwood.[5]....."

August 12, 2020, 1:15pm-2pm ET. Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the Shadow of the Pandemic

 

Evidence to Action Series Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the Shadow of the Pandemic

 

Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT

 

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Join Sarah Rosen Wartell, president of the Urban Institute, for the next installment in Urban’s conversation series, Evidence to Action. During this virtual event, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) will discuss his efforts to close the racial wealth gap through federal legislation.  Following that, Kilolo Kijakazi, Institute fellow at the Urban Institute, and Darrick Hamilton, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, will join Wartell to address how the racial wealth gap has exacerbated the harms of the pandemic, how the pandemic may be exacerbating the wealth gap, and how tools like baby bonds can help reduce racial inequities.