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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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4 Strategies for Building Lasting Volunteer Relationships

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About the Author: Timothy Sarazen is a visionary leader in the volunteerism and social impact sectors, serving as the President of Better Impact , a global software company dedicated to enhancing the experiences of non-profits,, and volunteer-driven organizations in the healthcare and government sectors.

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Return to Office: What’s Happening in the Nonprofit Sector and Why?

NonProfit Quarterly

Motivations to return to work in the nonprofit sector have tracked with reasons offered by many for-profit business executives. Caregivers who support elders, disabled relatives, or children are more able to take on work opportunities that allow for telecommuting.

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The Power of Spend-Down Funds And Immediate Attention

The NonProfit Times

However, other donors prefer not to pass significant wealth to their children, believing that it can lead to complacency. Warren Buffett encapsulates this philosophy with his famous quote: “Leave the children enough so that they can do anything but not enough that they can do nothing.”

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Problems of cost, of course, are rooted in economic injustice, racial injustice, and the commodification of profit-motivated healthcare in the United States. A Child is a Child 2023 Snapshot: Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Childrens Health (Los Angeles, CA: The Childrens Partnership, 2023). 24 Meanwhile, as of 2022, 17.1

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Why the social sector is vital to healthy, thriving communities

Candid

The memo referenced Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) this umbrella term refers to organizations or corporations that operate independently of government and do not operate to make a profit (although used more commonly for organizations operating outside the U.S.). million jobs, nearly 10% of the non-government labor force.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

15 If this were to be adopted, individuals would own their data as property and could profit from selling access to, or even full ownership of, their data for personalized services or research. One US company has even proposed that the United Nations adopt the first decentralized human right: the right to legal ownership of ones human data.