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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They can recognize patients may be at risk of social isolation, yet their role is often limited to filling a patient’s medical prescription. She is preparing a road map of awareness and education for the sector. One medical practice achieved a 21 percent drop in health-care costs. for every £1 invested.

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23 Leaders Selected for 2022 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

In response to research that shows nearly 1 in 3 nonprofits lack any professionals of color on their boards (BoardSource) and to foster more inclusive and equitable communities, the Nonprofit Leadership Center launched the Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship in 2021. Meet the 2022 Fellows.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

His ideas changed paradigms of public health and human rights, and he demonstrated that it’s possible to deliver world-class medical care to people in the most resource-poor settings imaginable. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education.

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Black Organizers in Boston’s Roxbury Neighborhood Provide a Path Forward

NonProfit Quarterly

Our organization, the Boston Ujima Project , which is a home for arts and cultural organizing, political education, and investment in Black-owned and cooperative businesses—and to which Turner contributed until his passing in 2019—is just one part of a much larger story. After raising $4.5

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