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Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

Fundraising Leadership

healthcare workforce was “about 75% women, the company’s C-suite was about 62% men in 2016.” Culture eats strategy for lunch.” When you look at healthcare, the pandemic taught us that health equity does not exist in our country,” Holder says. “If government at cost, which the federal government gave for free.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

And many American women do not have access to coverage for midwives, doulas, and other community health workers to help them overcome the challenges embedded within the US healthcare system. The Black women who participated in the study also framed their maternal healthcare experiences as a stressor.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Soft skills, relationship building, and culture will all still matter across industries and job types. The care economy employs 17 percent of the US workforce, an area currently experiencing one of the greatest employment shortages, including home healthcare aides and nurses. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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Why Ending the Public Health Emergency Is Not Progress—And What Funders Can Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. It is estimated that, with this change, 15 million people could lose this essential healthcare coverage , bringing the most harm to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, and poor people.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: gorodenkoff on istock.com The creativity and ingenuity of socially marginalized and racialized groups can drive innovative healthcare solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the social, economic, and racial discrimination that underlies the US healthcare system.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Roughly one-third of rural counties reported the presence of an economic professional who could identify and write grants for local government. This helped preserve more than 17,000 jobs.

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Writing New Narratives for Health

NonProfit Quarterly

As a longtime science-fiction fan and health justice practitioner, I’m drawn to works that imagine the future of our healthcare system. How is healthcare designed and delivered? What is our individual and collective right to a healthcare system that enables true healing? Image Credit: Ella Jardim on unsplash.com.

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