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

NonProfit Quarterly

Nutrisense Inc on Pexels Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are revolutionizing diabetes management. The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Facing Race Founded in 1981, Race Forward is a nonprofit racial justice organization with a mission of “helping people take effective action toward racial equity.” I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. Leslie Grant-Spann: This year is my tenth anniversary on staff.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. As such, it involves dealing with the tensions between homeowners and tenants , the influence of money in politics and housing, and the public resistance to higher taxes and fees.

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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Yet, nonprofit volunteers are continually either overlooked or treated as an afterthought.

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Arts nonprofits saw revenue fall in every category in 2024. What lies ahead? 

Candid

arts and cultural organizations have faced a global pandemic, inflationary pressures, shifting audience behaviors , and changes in public policy and government funding. Arts nonprofits will need to take immediate action to minimize the impact on working capital and preserve critical programs and human capital.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

The SABSA cooperative team of 13 includes nurse practitioners, social psychology internists, a visiting psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist, infectious disease specialists, external general practitioners, and a public health specialist. The work of SABSA demonstrates the capacity of nurse practitioners to manage patients with these conditions.