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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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Program Management Statistics: 12 Stats and How to Use Them

Get Fully Funded

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Services Delivered.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Entrepreneurship and self-employment are also emerging as promising avenues for individuals with disabilities.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Adelante Mujeres (which means Forward, Women), the nonprofit where we work and which has operated for over two decades, seeks to answer this question. The program was launched by the nonprofit Adelante Mujeres during the Great Recession in 2008. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses?

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Example: “Do you have any experience with a budget for your family or managing money for a community project?”) Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages.

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What millennials and boomers really think - and what that means to your cause

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

A good summary of the prevailing sentiment is this quote: “My hope is that society will become more family oriented than government oriented.” Control : frugality, effective money management, black and white answers that come from scientific pursuits, own business/entrepreneurship, self reliance (especially younger Millennials).