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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

According to The World Health Organization , of the 1 billion people around the world currently experiencing a mental disorder, more than 80% are without any form of quality, affordable care. And with the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on mental health, there has never been a more important time than now to address mental health conditions. .

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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

The Conference + Catalyst are presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners in partnership with the Institute for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership, Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration. Our speakers Xavier Ramey is the CEO of Justice Informed, a social impact consulting firm based in Chicago, IL.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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Unlocking the Power of Data Refineries for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social progress, on the other hand, shows a very different picture. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors? In other words, companies are benefiting from a culture of using data to make decisions. The public sector isn’t much different.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

And then the differential impacts: how that affects women more if they’re in shelters and there’s an increase in violence, and the mental health impacts of that. We’re a society that does not think about mental health in conjunction with institutional and systemic issues very well; it tends to become very individualized and very relational.