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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: SeichanGant on Wikimedia Back in 2020, higher education faced multiple challengesincluding student debt, administrative bloat, and the spread of contingency (also known as adjunct labor) in faculty hiring. Five years later, the challenges facing higher education are as significant but different.

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5 Reasons Many Nonprofits Fail to Reach Their Highest Potential

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. This series will explore that central question.

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Survey: US Nonprofits at Critical Point as Funding for Community Needs Falters

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hide(); }});--> Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has released the results of a survey of the nonprofits that drive social and economic well-being in neighborhoods across the country. The COVID pandemic and calls for racial justice prompted more flexible funding and major public and private investments; that support is now waning.

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

How Guardianship Fails the Most Vulnerable The current guardianship system is flawed and carries profound human consequences, as well as straining an already overtaxed healthcare system. Rather than defaulting to protective custody, policy should seek to preserve individual agency and dignity. This approach creates a devastating cycle.

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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. People with diabetes are more than twice as likely to receive healthcare coverage from Medicaid as those without diabetes.

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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. Nonprofit leaders dedicated to social justice know that AIs power to shape lives will further entrench the biases weve fought for generations to dismantle if left unchallenged.

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