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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The money can be used for key wealth-building activities like education, homeownership, or starting a business. For people who lack adequate income, shelter, healthcare, or employment, their life choices are severely constrained. These accounts grow over time, maturing when the child reaches adulthood.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Theyre also vital for preventionby providing detailed, real-time information to their users, CGMs serve as educational tools for patients about managing and mitigating their disease in the long-term. For many people with diabetes, particularly those living below the poverty line, the cost of CGMs makes them unattainable.

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AI and Racial Justice: Navigating the Dual Impact on Marginalized Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

It reaches into healthcare, finance, justice, education, and public policy, promising to streamline and elevate. This isnt just a denial of financial services; its a denial of possibility, locking communities into cycles of poverty and keeping doors closed to upward mobility.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1

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What do you believe are the most critical areas for improvement to achieve your mission?

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We would love to qualify for funding for education, agriculture, electricity, fresh water, and jobs creation. We cannot achieve our mission of sustainability and creating opportunities to pull themselves from abject poverty. Help us help the world.

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Beautiful Solutions: A Conversation with Eli Feghali and Rachel Plattus

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. EF: Throughout the book, we designed this for organizers and educators.

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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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