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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sarah Cusworth Walker Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. And it is well known that communities of color experience less access to mental health services than white communities despite similar levels of need.

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Balancing Mental Health in Nonprofit Marketing

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

If you’re like many nonprofit marketers I know, you’re all about making a positive impact in the world through your work. To truly serve our missions and industry, we must prioritize our health and resilience. Because when it comes down to it, our most valuable asset is our mental health.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Her lack of access to healthy food, along with the stress associated with getting food and making ends meet, exacerbates her risk. Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance.

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Navigating Trends and Traditions in the Health Industry

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Navigating Trends and Traditions in the Health Industry Innovation will be necessary to keep up with these changes in the landscape for patients and providers in the health industry. Therefore, value-based models of care have the potential to reduce costs in health care while simultaneously improving quality.

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Writing New Narratives for Health

NonProfit Quarterly

As a longtime science-fiction fan and health justice practitioner, I’m drawn to works that imagine the future of our healthcare system. Who deserves good health? However—as we’ve explored in the series—organizers, healers, and other change agents have long lifted up counter-narratives of health and healthcare.

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How Men’s Mental Health Resources Can Help Serve All Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Kelly Davis , Rukudzo Mwamuka , Erla Magnúsdóttir & Gabriella Brent All over the globe, stigma and entrenched gender norms continue to prevent many men from seeking mental health support. The thing is, conversations about help-seeking in men’s mental health are not unique to men or mental health.

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An Open Letter to the Marketing and Development Coordinator (associate, manager, director, etc.)

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

This is happening in the middle of budget season, grant reporting, wrapping up that fall event, and various program marketing initiatives. Every day, a great snowfall of new emails with marketing requests blankets your inbox, while also dreading the inevitable task of identifying from where 2022 funding will come. .