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How Can We Support Youth Mental Health?

NonProfit Quarterly

In Rochester, a nine-year-old girl suffering from a mental health crisis who verbalized suicidal thoughts was pepper sprayed by the police officers that responded to her family’s call to 911 for support. Four out of five girls in juvenile detention suffer from a mental health disorder.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Billions of dollars in energy infrastructure and its associated profits are no longer hoarded by a handful of wealthy investors, utility executives, and shareholders; instead, they are deployed for shared prosperity to eliminate the racial wealth divide and to create meaningful, joyous, living-wage work for those formerly excluded from the economy.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

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Keeping the Child at the Heart of the Circle: Supporting Native Child Welfare

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: RDNE Stock project on pexels.com For centuries, Indigenous children in the United States have endured forceful removal from their families and communities. Yet in 2023, Native American children continue to be removed from their families and extended families, their language, culture, and way of life.

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Newsletter: 5 Key Takeaways from the CVS Lawsuit ? ; How Nonprofits Can Use ChatGPT ; Many Nonprofit Salaries are Going Public

Selfish Giving

While CVS pledged to make up any shortfall for the $10 million they agreed to raise, there was no direct pledge of dollars from CVS to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). CVS touted its donation with this headline: CVS Health announces $10 million commitment to the American Diabetes Association. ✍️ Partnership Notes 1.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. Finally, we can create a partial estimate of the impacts of these burdens on women’s health.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

The Mammy archetype is the image of an unattractive Black mother who is strong and content in her caregiving role for many children in the service of White slave owners or White employers. She is ambitious and has her mind set on parlaying her law degree into a White House career. 31 I hope you caught that.