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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Paul Cann Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early death; these are also linked to anxiety, depression, suicide, dementia, and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

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9 Essential Nonprofit Management Skills & Development Tips

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.

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Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off?

Affnetz

Some Nonprofit boards have a give, get, or get off policy and their Nonprofits are suffering because of it. For example, I worked with a local educational Nonprofit that served children in public housing communities. Recruit authentic voices from the community to the board of directors.

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Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In recent years, social justice leaders have consistently called for a systems change approach to redressing the root causes of social problems, rather than only mitigating their symptoms. After all, social justice is by nature utopian. Public awareness: to change the perception of a group at a societal or cultural level.

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Cooperation Jackson at 10: Lessons for Building a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

KA: I had a good education in that movement about cooperatives. SD: You have spoken before about your experience working in public education prior to moving to Mississippi. How did that experience affect your thinking? KA: In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was really concentrated on doing education work.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. And while unemployment plagues 11.3 Wages reflect the same disparity.