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The Best of Climate Justice 2024

NonProfit Quarterly

Funding Climate Mitigation: A Conversation with Michael Thatcher and Daniel Stein Educators Lack Confidence to Teach Climate ChangeWhats Being Done at the Policy Level? Educators Lack Confidence to Teach Climate ChangeWhats Being Done at the Policy Level? Insurance in a Climate-Changed World 6.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

These farmers also successfully advocated for a system of federally backed cooperative banks and joined together to form farmer-owned insurance pools, allowing agriculture cooperatives to form, including prominent brands like Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray. Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance.

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Who do Americans believe should help people in need? 

Candid

At the top of the list were nonprofits helping people in the United States who need food, shelter, or other basic necessities (40%) and religious institutions (churches, mosques, or synagogues, (37%), followed by disaster relief (29%), animal welfare (24%), educational (21%), and health care or medical research (19%) organizations.

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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

An award-winning elementary educator integrating social justice into the curriculum for 30 years, Hoeh suffered a spinal cord injury in 2017 that shifted his focus to disability rights. The confusion about when the repair deadline countdown beginswhether from initial request or after insurance approvalhas exacerbated these service issues.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In what is now the United States, Benjamin Franklin created the first mutual bank and mutual insurance company in 1752, after a devastating fire destroyed much of Philadelphia. Another interesting example comes from First Book , a nonprofit that provides kids with books through a network of more than 600,000 educators serving 6.5

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Merging Nonprofit Organizations: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know

Nonprofit Fixer

Tax Documents - 990’s (3 years), Tax exemption letter, Unrelated business income Insurance Documents Personnel docs - contractor agreements, vendor agreements, policies, list of consultants, compensation plan, etc. We had to do a lot of education so that staff understood the role of the board of directors and the executive directors.

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Driving Without a Safety Net: How Nonprofits Are Helping People Recover from Car Accidents

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

For those without insurance, the consequences can be even more devastating. While laws and penalties exist to encourage insurance coverage, they often fail to address the root causesfinancial hardship, lack of awareness, and systemic barriers. Without insurance, accident victims often have little recourse.