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Driving Without a Safety Net: How Nonprofits Are Helping People Recover from Car Accidents

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

In the United States alone, approximately 1 in 8 drivers are uninsured, leaving many accident victims without the resources needed for medical care, vehicle repairs, or legal support. Many find themselves in deep debt or forced to forgo necessary medical treatments. This is where nonprofits step in to provide crucial assistance.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare. It s estimated that 2.6

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. Neuroscientists are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to advance their work.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

There was an American hospital algorithm that was designed to better triage patients with respect to who needed the most medical attention, especially as regards sudden worsening of a condition.6 2 Because whats being reflected in that mirror doesnt look anything like us. 7 But thats just the tip of the iceberg.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. 21 Integrating Data Ethics and Diversity into the Narrative In the United Kingdom, organizations can use personal data without consent under a rule known as lawful basis. Not all data are generated, valued, or treated in the same way.

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Transgender Rights Under Threat: Preparing for Federal Crackdowns

NonProfit Quarterly

Anti-transgender state laws have been linked to a significant increase in suicide attempts in the past year among transgender and nonbinary youth, with rates rising by up to 72 percent. Transgender activist and journalist Erin Reed has recommended that trans people consider reducing dosages or stockpiling medications.

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LGBTQ+ and Disability Rights Organizations Are Resisting Trump’s Nonprofit Crackdown

NonProfit Quarterly

NGOs like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are being forced to remove all content about LGBTQ+ identities from their website and may be forced to deadname missing and exploited children, Chapman said. This crackdown has already had tangible consequences. LGBTQ+ individuals are scared right now.