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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. Along with feelings about climate change eroding mental health, climate events can contribute to loneliness.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

At present, one of UNEC’s most critical projects is to convene a multi-partner collaboration in the city’s Northeast Corridor neighborhoods to transform our local food system. I’ve observed the inner workings of a complex food system that, when it functions well, nourishes our bodies, families, and cultures.

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

This article introduces Black Food Sovereignty: Stories from the Field , a series co-produced by Frontline Solutions and NPQ. This series features stories from a group of Black food sovereignty leaders who are working to transform the food system at the local level. These communities still live under food apartheid.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

And, as in so many other cities, Louisville’s predominantly Black neighborhoods are subject to food apartheid. Downtown grocery stores have recently disappeared, exacerbating food apartheid: between 2016 and 2018, five grocery stores in Louisville’s urban core closed. Some of these projects were top-down in conception and execution.

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Exposed and at Risk: New Report Shows Farms Do Little to Protect Workers from Harm

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Tim Mossholder on unsplash.com “All they care about is the harvest,” Gracida Daleyza, a farmworker and mother of two young disabled children, told Lookout Santa Cruz. Illinois also does not mandate that medical providers report suspected cases of pesticide exposure. Farmworker deaths continued to be underreported.

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Industry Overviews: Online Grocery Sales & Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC

Selfish Giving

The industry comprises companies that are based online and those that have both a physical presence and also sell food products on the internet. All children deserve the resources necessary to enjoy their best lives. Online Grocery Sales Operators in this industry sell grocery items through online channels.

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Black Women and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Closing the Gap in HIV Prevention

NonProfit Quarterly

Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits are leading the efforts in some cases, like SisterLove , an Atlanta-based organization focused on women’s sexual health and whose “Healthy Love” curriculum includes education around PrEP. The effort aims to counteract a variety of factors that have led to lower use of PrEP by cisgendered Black women.

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