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Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on combating hateful content online, with guests; Dave Sifry, Vice President of Anti-Defamation League's Center for Technology & Society & Larry Magid, CEO & Co-Founder of Connect Safely

Combating Hateful Content | Nonprofit Report

September 23, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on combating hateful content online, with guests; Dave Sifry, Vice President of Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Technology & Society & Larry Magid, CEO & Co-Founder of Connect Safely

Gaby King Morse, President & CEO of The Center for Women & Enterprise & Michelle Richards, Executive Director of Great Lakes Women’s Business Council

Women Owned Businesses | Nonprofit Report

September 21, 2021

In celebration of American Business Women’s Day, Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on women-owned businesses, with guests; Gaby King Morse, President & CEO of The Center for Women & Enterprise & Michelle Richards, Executive Director of Great Lakes Women’s Business Council

Donna Grabow, Executive Director of Safenet Services

INSIGHT: Safenet Services – Donna Grabow

September 10, 2021

Donna Grabow, Executive Director of Safenet Services, discusses the importance of services for victims of abuse and stalking and the importance of breaking the cycle of abuse patterns within families. This interview was produced in collaboration with RSUTV.

Mark Skurnik, Senior Sourcing Manager of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, Randy Akahoshi, Procurement Development Specialist of Maui Fresh International & Jerry Creekpaum, Chief Operations Officer of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County

How Food Banks Get Food | Nonprofit Report

September 2, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a conversation on how food banks get food to their facilities, with guests; Mark Skurnik, Senior Sourcing Manager of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, Randy Akahoshi, Procurement Development Specialist of Maui Fresh International & Jerry Creekpaum, Chief Operations Officer of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County

Dr. J. Allen Bryant, Dr. Trinidad Gonzales, and Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Critical Race Theory Perspectives | Nonprofit Report

August 24, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on Critical Race Theory, with guests: Dr. J. Allen Bryant, who teaches at Appalachian State U. and is also Director of The Gadugi Program, a partnership between the University and Cherokee Central Schools; Dr. Trinidad Gonzales, a history and Mexican American Studies instructor at South Texas College and co-founding member of Refusing to Forget; and Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University where he teaches courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on the USA's broken immigration system, with guest; Benjamin Johnson, Executive Director of American Immigration Lawyers Association & Russell Smith, CEO of Refugee Services of Texas

Immigration | Nonprofit Report

August 10, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on the USA’s broken immigration system, with guest; Benjamin Johnson, Executive Director of American Immigration Lawyers Association & Russell Smith, CEO of Refugee Services of Texas

Terry Hogan, President and CTO of National Center for Women & Information Technology

Correcting Underrepresentation in Tech | Nonprofit Report

August 5, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on correcting underrepresentation in tech, with guest;

Terry Hogan, President and CTO of National Center for Women & Information Technology

John Harmon, President & CEO of The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Inc. Larry Ivory, President & CEO of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce & Jay King, President & CEO of California Black Chamber of Commerce

African American Chambers of Commerce | Nonprofit Report

July 22, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on the importance of African American Chambers of Commerce, with guests;

John Harmon, President & CEO of The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Inc.
Larry Ivory, President & CEO of the Illinois State Black Chamber of Commerce
&
Jay King, President & CEO of California Black Chamber of Commerce

Census Takers Worry That Apartment Renters Were Undercounted

July 5, 2021

Census taker Linda Rothfield’s government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because of the pandemic.

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on affordable housing for low income and homeless individuals and families , with guests; Rob Cramp, Executive Director of Housing for Homeless Maria Devlin, President and CEO of Families in Transition & Philip H. Hecht, President and CEO of Housing Up

Affordable Housing For All | Nonprofit Report

July 1, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on affordable housing for low income and homeless individuals and families, with guests;

Rob Cramp, Executive Director of Housing for Homeless
Maria Devlin, President and CEO of Families in Transition
&
Philip H. Hecht, President and CEO of Housing Up

Woody Keown, Jr., President & COO of National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Ashley Rogers, Executive Director of the Whitney Plantation

In Honor of Juneteenth | Nonprofit Report

June 17, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on the importance of Juneteenth and how we as a society talk about the history slavery, with guests; Woody Keown, Jr., President & COO of National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Ashley Rogers, Executive Director of the Whitney Plantation

CenterLink's CEO Denise Spivak and Co-Chair of the Board of Directors Robert Boo

Supporting LGBTQ+ Community Centers | Nonprofit Report

June 3, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on the importance of LGBTQ+ community centers with CenterLink’s CEO Denise Spivak and Co-Chair of the Board of Directors Robert Boo.

Diego Miguel Sanchez, PFLAG's Director of Advocacy, Policy and Partnership

LGBTQ+ Rights in America | Nonprofit Report

June 1, 2021

Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on LGBTQ rights with Diego Miguel Sanchez, PFLAG’s Director of Advocacy, Policy and Partnership.

Jeannie Hovland poses with a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mask

Families, Advocates Mark Day of Awareness for Native Victims

May 5, 2021

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From Washington to Indigenous communities across the American Southwest, top government officials, family members and advocates gathered Wednesday as part of a call to action to address the ongoing problem of violence against Indigenous women and children.

Janelle Dixon, President and CEO of the Animal Humane Society; Joe Elmore, President & CEO of the Charleston Animal Society; and Julie Klim, CEO of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals.

Preventing Animal Abuse and Neglect | Nonprofit Report

May 4, 2021

Host Mark Oppenheim leads a discussion on preventing animal abuse and neglect with guests: Janelle Dixon, President and CEO of the Animal Humane Society; Joe Elmore, President & CEO of the Charleston Animal Society; and Julie Klim, CEO of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals.

Women from the state's Asian American Commission

Asian American Business Leaders Seek to Fight Discrimination

May 3, 2021

Asian American business leaders are launching a foundation to challenge discrimination through what they call the largest philanthropic commitment in history by Asian Americans geared to support members of their own community.

family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb

Hundreds Join Daunte Wright’s Family on March for Justice

May 3, 2021

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright’s family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop three weeks earlier.

a line of police officers block protesters

Floyd Verdict Won’t Remove Blocks to Police Accountability

April 27, 2021

St. Louis (AP) — The guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder case felt like a watershed moment to many Americans. President Biden called the verdicts a “giant step toward justice.” But pervasive legal roadblocks to police accountability remain entrenched.

a sign that reads, "HELP," in the window

Underwriter Withdraws from Alabama Prison Lease Project

April 20, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The underwriter for a project to build two prisons in Alabama announced that it is pulling out following criticism that it was breaking a promise not to get involved in for-profit prisons.

New signs are on a fence at the Hennepin County Government Center

A Look at High-Profile Cases Over Killings by US Police

April 19, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin i s charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death after pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.”

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