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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Magda Ehlers on pexels.com Our mental health is directly related to our social position, values, and proximity to power—which all impact how we exist. Several mental healthcare initiatives are approaching care by mobilizing those experiencing eco-anxiety to channel their emotions toward climate action.

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Across the Country, Poor and Low-Wage Voters Are Organizing

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, nearly all low-wage workers in the city are rent-burdened , with 25 percent of children within the city limits living in poverty. As many other leaders did across the country, Martin noted the sobering fact that in America, poverty is the fourth leading cause of death. Housing security is public health.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Study finds significant connection between poverty, poor health care. A significant link exists between poverty and high healthcare needs, a report from Robin Hood finds. Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M. February 4, 2022. and Harry B.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements attached to public benefits often ignore the structural barriers that many individuals face, such as systemic racism, sexism, and limited access to quality education and employment opportunities. Without economic mobility, families—particularly BIPOC families —are stuck in the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

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The Future Is NOW: Black Leader Leads Organization Into Intersectional Future

Fundraising Leadership

With the current social injustice crises of women’s healthcare and reproductive rights, racial violence, political extremism and disinformation, Nunes, who describes herself as an optimist, says it is similar to other points in history. It is important for NOW to have a Black woman leading,” Nunes says.