This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
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. While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets.
For the first five years, Springboard operated programs for education reentry, workforce development, and afterschool programs, but our families told us they didn’t need another program. There have been gains at the state level , but getting enough support to move federal policy across the finish line remains a challenge.
Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.
The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education. Some women offered specific recommendations for supportive services, such as talks on sexual education and violence prevention for young people. The pandemic increased caregiving demands among women, underscoring gender inequity.
Medical data registries have set the standard. That means using standardized language for the key concepts, even if those concepts are more complex in nature—like DNA, carbon emissions, or medical intervention. education, criminal justice, public health, etc.).
Moreover, without huge equity-focused public and private investment in opportunity-rich communities, education, and sustainability, companies will struggle to hire the talent they need and stay relevant to a far more diverse customer base. Of course, meeting the needs of workers goes beyond wages.
We should be providing the communities we serve access to, education about , and motivation for voting. Fair voting rights mean our clients have access to making decisions for themselves medically, financially, and personally. You can’t do publicpolicy work in a silo. Join Momentum’s PublicPolicy Action Network.
By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. Crucially, the CEO and board empowered the committee to recommend bold changes.
This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. And while unemployment plagues 11.3 Wages reflect the same disparity.
Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible publicpolicy journey. But when advocating for policy changes, appealing solely to emotions might not be enough.
After World War II, NAM was joined by the Foundation for Economics Education and the Mount Pelerin Society, named for the community near Geneva, Switzerland, where the group was founded in 1947. That markets work and publicpolicies fail. But the link with religion was not merely metaphorical. It was also strategic.
2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.
. “In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.
The 2021 Heart of Sonoma County Awards Were Presented To: Corporate Community Service, Sponsored by CVNL.Anesthesia & Analgesia Medical Group, Inc. Project Coyote is a national organization whose mission is to promote compassionate conservation and coexistence between humans and wildlife through education, science, and advocacy.
Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional publicpolicy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.
“While there are many transferable skills, moving back into the very different civilian culture — whether in business, education, law, medicine, or elsewhere— means learning new ways of interacting, a new language and new, often covert rules,” says Wilmoth, Executive Dean at UNC School of Nursing, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Thats why, in publicpolicy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. For instance, an AI trained primarily on synthetic medical data might ignore rare, but critically important, symptoms a human doctor would catch. Strong IP protections are key to this process.
Additionally, this position is responsible for assisting in the recruitment and training for Program Volunteers, including Community Educators and Community Representatives. The Family Care Specialist is responsible for the delivery of Helpline and Care Consultation services.
Likewise, health issues are exacerbated by poor water quality, food shortages, heat exhaustion, cold waves, and air pollution, with the need for money for medical support a leading factor in trapping them in bonded labor. This deeply rooted struggle risks being overwhelmed by the impact of climate change in the region.
Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our publicpolicy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?
Through its Intersectional Fridays program, the collective deepens community ties by inviting diverse community members to their farm for workshops and political education, fostering connections with both the land and each other. Our relationships strengthen security through solidarity and comradeship,” explained Dr. Christina M.
Additionally, this position is responsible for assisting in the recruitment and training for Program Volunteers, including Community Educators and Community Representatives. The Family Care Specialist is responsible for the delivery of Helpline and Care Consultation services.
This includes strategies of community organizing, publicpolicy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. Rudd, Christina F.
45 Additionally, worker cooperatives, once marginal in the world of publicpolicy, have since 2018 won an impressive string of legislative victories at both the federal and state level. Esteban Kelly and Mo Manklang, “Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and PublicPolicy,” Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine 30, no.
In 2021, the Hungarian Parliament passed a dont say gay law (which inspired similar anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in multiple US states), banning the depiction or discussion of LGBTQ+ topics in educational materials and media accessible to minors. Hungarian police have also targeted safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.
For example, during the 2022 mpox epidemic , queer influencers stepped in when Floridas public health authorities were silent. President Biden appointed Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a queer medical influencer, as mpox czar, bridging cultural divides to activate the most at-risk community: queer men. 3 (2022): 822842. 3 (2020): 401426.
Healthcare, education, and housing have all become unaffordable. As publicpolicy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. Living in a world run by the one percent makes everyone else miserable.
After a decade of organizing to move debt cancellation from the margins to the center of national policy debates, the movement to cancel student debt continues to gain ground, as NPQ’s Rithika Ramamurthy documented earlier this year. Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 27,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content