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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Socioeconomic determinants such as household income, housing conditions, employment, and access to health insurance affect maternal health outcomes. However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes.

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. The atrocities may seem remote to some, but not to the survivors—people in our community, many of whom were children at the time and are now in their late forties or early fifties.

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Coffee Companies That Emphasize Hiring Disabled Workers Fall Short

NonProfit Quarterly

Founded by parents who had two children with Down syndrome, they were inspired to open a coffee shop that would provide a workplace for people with disabilities. The livable wage in the area for a single adult with no children is $16.44 Today, the current minimum wage in Wilmington is $7.25

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Management Challenges: Early Lessons in Advancing Pay Equity and Wellness Globally

NonProfit Quarterly

We have also been stirred by the long-overdue reckoning over race in the United States and sought in response to address racial equity more squarely in our work. We realize how taxing travel can be for employees: perhaps they have weakened immune systems, or children or elderly parents they care for at home.