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

NonProfit Quarterly

While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets. First, it dilutes the perception of CGMs as necessary medical tools for people with diabetes, potentially reducing the urgency of making these devices accessible to those who need them most.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In Legislative Theatre, the plays created by community groups directly address unjust public policy and practice, and the improvisations by spect-actors offer the opportunity to test new laws, rules, and resources to address those problems. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And although we belong to different generations, we share a culture and experiences as Mexican women. Purple Glasses to Innovate All Women Coo aims to transform these cultural dynamics and remove common barriers to gender equity. Our observation and understanding of gender inequalities derive from this unique intersection of knowledge.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Libraries, universities, cultural centers, public parks and outdoor spaces, and other institutions that helped shape the nation and powered the rise of a thriving white middle class in the mid-20th century were not created by the market or a single sector. Our culture is shaped by businesses. But they never have.

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And over the past decade, public policy—by way of the Lei de Cotas (the “Quotas Law”), which establishes university quotas for Black and Indigenous students and people who studied in public schools—has made higher education more accessible to racialized and poor people.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.