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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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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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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system. TCE listened.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. Yet Brazil has seen growing racial awareness in recent years.

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A Blueprint for Designing Better Digital Government Services

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Joe Lee , Annie Newman & Bry Pardoe Public perceptions about government and government service delivery are at an all-time low across the United States. What sounds so obvious to the public, requires a Herculean effort to execute in government.

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11 Hispanic and Latino Organizations Everyone Should Know

EveryAction

we recognize the contributions made by and the important presence of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States, and celebrate their heritage and culture. Across America, Hispanic and Latino organizations are leading the way in every realm, including advocacy, education, healthcare, and social services. Latino Victory.

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What Is Needed Now

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits play a critical role in organizing communities and advocating for better policies to face these crises, and we must now assess what we are looking for in our colleagues and ourselves. The unique recruitment opportunity lies in the ability of the organization to articulate those values aloud, even up front in a job announcement.