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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Queen Rania: The Syrian refugees I met are experiencing something worse than death - Th... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 15 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Because no one chooses to be a refugee. Refugees are refugees because the alternative used to be death. Now, there’s a worse option: a living death.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 15 Jul 16
     
    Queen Rania of Jordan writes a blistering and heartfelt analysis of the many "deaths" that refugees experience deciding whether to leave their homes, trying to leave their country, then arriving in new "haven" countries that don't want them and threaten to send them back to their home country.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Capacity building for communities of color: The paradigm must shift (and why I'm leavin... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • funders do not invest sufficient funds in our organizations to build capacity because we don’t have enough capacity.
  • Yet we are constantly asked to do stuff, to sit at various tables, to help with outreach, to rally our community members to attend various summits and support various policies.
  • Because we don’t have capacity, we can’t get support to develop capacity.
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  • funders provide small grants to nonprofits of color so they can do things like hire a consultant to facilitate a strategic planning retreat, or to send them to workshops on board development, fundraising, personnel policies, or myriad other capacity building topics.
  • critical missing element. Staffing.
  • If we value the voice of our diverse communities, we must build the capacity of organizations led by those communities. But we must do it differently than how we’ve been doing it. We must invest strategically and sufficiently.
  • Capacity Paradox.
  • capacity of immigrant/refugee-led nonprofits by providing this critical missing element of staffing.
  • The gap in leadership among the immigrant/refugee communities will widen further because kids are not entering the nonprofit field. Most immigrant/refugee kids are pressured by their families to go into jobs with higher pay and prestige
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 31 Mar 16
     
    Great article on capacity building for nonprofit leadership and staff in communities of color serving people of color
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