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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the sector needs a more compelling, ethical model for a brokerage that uses decentralized governance, transparency, and inclusivity. The honest broker collects and provides aggregate health data to investigators while protecting individual identities and privacy. Theyre usually not part of the organizational team.

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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

Morrill is part of a growing community of psychologists who argue that mental health must be understood in its social context. These practitioners later formed the Boston Liberation Health Group. The group got its charter around the same time as the Occupy movement and provided mental health services at the local encampment.

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How we all benefit from nonprofits every day 

Candid

Health information and assistance: When surfing online for health information, most of us will end up on a nonprofits website. Senior services: That neighborhood senior center where people go for activities, meals, or just company? Its likely run by a nonprofit. Disability services: More than one in four U.S.

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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Ensure that the organization is operating consistent with its governing documents , including with respect to provisions governing elections, terms of service, board meetings, board actions by written consent, delegated authority to committees and officers, reports, amendments to bylaws, and voting membership rights (if applicable).

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

A Care Cooperative in Quebec City Meets Community Health Needs This year’s Cigale music festival , held over three days in August at Baie de Beauport beach in the Port of Quebec, was a great success. The provincial government agreed to help underwrite worker salaries. Fear and shame were preventing them from getting needed care.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

Hardest hit by flooding was the Central Appalachia region, where years of disinvestment by government and philanthropy left the region ill prepared. Their first two grants split $15 million between American Red Cross and Salvation Army for direct activities or subgrants across the six affected states. A third grant provides $7.5

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How We Built Bridges and Equalized Power at My Workplace

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Visuals on Unsplash The past few years have seen a flurry of workers organizing across the country, from Starbucks and Amazon workers to new forms of cooperative ownership and governance sharing. As a health reporter for Parallel News TV , an online news platform, Ive always been passionate about storytelling.

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