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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. These entrenched social norms deeply impact women’s lives and opportunities.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. —Audre Lorde (“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”) 1. 8 This was not always the case.

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides our webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. But first what I want to do is just ask Steven to launch a poll to gauge where you are right now with regard to feelings about promoting legacy giving in your nonprofit. And is just all over the place.