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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the stated goals of that report was to “identify communities with high lead exposures and improve their health outcomes.” Even small amounts of lead can lead to severe adverse health effects in children , including issues with learning, brain and nervous system development, hearing and speech, and arrested growth.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Historically, for example, Black public health leaders in Pittsburgh created Freedom House Ambulance Services after being neglected by police-staffed ambulances. The paramedic training and ambulance design standards pioneered in the Freedom House Ambulance Service helped set the national public health standard for emergency care.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative. At one point, the team learned that residents feared the lake because overgrown vegetation made it unclear where the water began, and parents worried that their children might drown.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO) is a collaborative of 13 philanthropies, including The JPB Foundation where I serve as senior vice president of environment and strategic initiatives. Mitigation practices include green building (i.e., Adaptation is about how we adjust to the climate and its effects; it aims to avoid or minimize harm.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.