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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While these solutions are important and advance every year, public health is increasingly challenged by factors that are outside what we traditionally define as the health care sector. Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. Admittedly, they are relatively new (Crowley 2014; Katz et al.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

For their part, the occupants of the national office were content with this relationship: the dues allowed the national headquarters to engage in an advocacy strategy reliant upon public relations and court battles to eventually change the legal status of Black Americans. In a quest to grow the mission, organizations hired managers.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The activities of these cities demonstrate the relevance of the SDGs in the United States and their utility as a platform from which scalable multidisciplinary solutions on a wide range of issues might grow. This allows for data-driven decision-making by local governments as they deliver key services to their residents.