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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. Some of the parts, especially for motorized wheelchairs, are specialized, meaning they’re only available from limited suppliers and their repair can cost more than insurance is willing to pay.

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Blue Avocado Presents: Copyright Concerns for Nonprofits – Live Q&A

Blue Avocado

Nonprofits often create content for awareness, fundraising, or educational purposes, and understanding copyright principles is essential. This is your opportunity to ask questions and get answers about safeguarding your creative works and upholding ethical standards.

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How Freelance Journalists Are Moving from Precarity to Solidarity

NonProfit Quarterly

We are dispersed and face anti-worker laws,” Higgins said in an interview. One way is through the Freelance Isn’t Free Act , which became law in New York City in 2017. Forms of that law have followed in New York State ; Illinois ; Columbus , OH; and Los Angeles , CA. How does the creativity of which Higgins speaks show up?

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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Rising To The Top: Founder, CEO on Supporting All WOC To Succeed

Fundraising Leadership

We want to bring together women of color and provide them educational content.” “ “We don’t want another networking organization,” @Ajwhyte_esq says. “We Black women entrepreneurs are highly susceptible to risk, with just 23% having business insurance and as few as 8% having dedicated legal support.

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Dr. James explains how to harness friendship reciprocity to unlock heroic donations

iMarketSmart

Both players could agree to a “mutual insurance” pact. The simple game has an unbreakable law: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. In the extreme game, the law still applies. It leads to natural rules for picking mutual insurance partners. Player 2 will die. So, one of them will die.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

Colorado’s Story Colorado is home to some of the country’s most favorable cooperative laws. Given this recent investment in outreach and education efforts, coupled with heightened interest from local governments, we expect to see many more employee-owned businesses statewide in the next five years. Despite this growth, an estimated 24.7