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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), a tool for artistic activism originating in Brazil and now practiced around the world, is one creative and timely strategy for political and social action. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019. But a TO process doesn’t stop there.

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A Call to Coalition: On Whiteness in Healing and Movement Spaces

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: ROCKETMANN TEAM on Pexels The movement work to which I am called requires a multiracial, multigenerational coalition of organizers and advocates to shift policies and systems toward giving power and land back to Indigenous and Black people. I was raised as a Pentecostal Christian (COGIC) by a single, divorced mother.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Influencers have taken to social media to promote these devices, which monitor and optimize blood sugar levels to help with weight loss, improve athletic performance, or decrease tiredness. While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets.

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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Many mobile health clinic programs successfully deliver culturally responsive care and build trust in communities that have historically been cut off from the healthcare system. Additionally, some mobile health clinic programs are structured to prepare and train a culturally responsive public health and nursing workforce.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 14 A dearth of mental health providers with the cultural understanding needed to work with NHPI youth can also lead to their misdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 10 Only 35.1

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Simply asking “why?”