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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. Subsequently, the health minister agreed to give the clinic a special status, encouraging the launch of more “super-nurse” clinics across Quebec.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The good news is that there is demonstrable demand for seeding new forms of holistic problem-solving across previously siloed efforts in democracy protection, public health, climate action, social justice, and peace and security. Securing the Future What might the decades ahead look like if we do all these things soon and well?

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Marine Life Center forcus on rehabilitating stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises & whales while advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health & conservation. Partners In Health :: @ PIH. National MS Society :: @ MSSociety. Southern Poverty Law Center :: @ SPLCenter.

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Local Leaders Are Driving Systems Change. Philanthropy Must Follow.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Where there's a baseline of rule of law and institutional accountability, these leaders have focused primarily on their own governments and communities—unlocking domestic resources, shifting and implementing policy, and building local ownership of solutions that last. percent of global funding directly.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.