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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. The Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Costanza Rampini is an associate professor at San Jose State University who studies the impact of climate change and solutions. She and her research team were joined by researchers from the University of California, Davis to conduct surveys of people who are unhoused and live by urban streams in parts of the Bay Area.

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Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

HAND , the regional association of affordable housing organizations, counts over 40 nonprofit members that serve the 22 cities and counties that comprise the region. The Benefits of Mergers in Affordable Housing At present, the affordable housing sector is characterized by many small- to medium-sized actors.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Among these were the local zoo, a university, a theater project, a parks advocacy group, a neighborhood association, a community development corporation, the local community foundation, and many public agencies—including the county park system, the housing authority, the transit agency, and the city and county governments.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocated $1 billion in recovery efforts in 2019 for disasters that took place in 2017; and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) invested approximately $381.7 Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. .