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Children's Hospital Los Angeles Lands $25 Million for Pediatric Mental Health Program

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

philanthropists Gene and Mindy Stein aims to help young children with complex medical conditions navigate mental health challenges. The gift from L.A.

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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

There is good reason to wonder whether collecting all types of suffering into medicalized mental health disorders is the most accurate or ethical approach when it comes to addressing these crises,” says Dr. Zenobia Morrill , a psychology professor at William James College. These practitioners later formed the Boston Liberation Health Group.

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How Interior Design Can Improve Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

One of the systemic issues she seeks to address is the exclusion that people of color experience in health and wellness spaces. Yet, health justice advocates often overlook one important aspect of medical exclusionthe physical environment. In health spaces, color theory is most palpable in wall paint and upholstery.

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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tirza Gapp & Jennifer Howard-Grenville When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

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What to Do on Your Mental Health Day

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

I was a big proponent on mental health days even before the past two years happened. First off, mental health days are not for you to avoid your boss after you made a mistake or just don’t feel like listening to your co-workers. Answer “yes” to any of these and you need to keep reading… Scheduling a Mental Health Day.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The answer is to start, not with top-down policies, but with the everyday work of re-knitting community relationships through investments in creativity and culture. This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health.