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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

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What’s trending? Top subject searches in Candid nonprofit profiles 

Candid

Arts and culture searches surged in January and February For the most part, arts and culture, human services, health, education, and community and economic development were consistently among the five most searched subject areas across Candid’s nonprofit profiles from November through February.

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Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Edmondson & Anahide Nahhal In 2019, Joyce Craig, the newly elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, was grappling with two major crises : The city was reporting an opioid-related death every few days, and chronic homelessness was rising.

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Is NYC’s Mayor Playing into Anti-Immigrant Sentiment?

NonProfit Quarterly

Adams’ deputies followed suit, with the city Chancellor of Education David C. And he has threatened to upend the decades-old precedent of “Right to Shelter” for people experiencing homelessness, citing the need for additional space in city homeless shelters to accommodate migrants. This is the American dream.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

The Kindful Blog

Mission: Boulanger Initiative’s mission is to promote music composed by womxn through performance, education, and commissions. Donate hygiene, cleaning, or non-perishable food items. Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income.

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Leveraging the Collective Power of Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Although new to both housing and philanthropy, I knew that where and how we live is integral to our health, education, and economic mobility. And I knew that unstable, unaffordable, and unsafe housing meant families had to choose between rent and food, utilities, medicines, and childcare.

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Where Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?

NonProfit Quarterly

Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 Tier II grant categories go beyond the traditional environment and health topic areas. million to environmental health, $72.9 million to environmental health, $72.9