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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

Morrill is part of a growing community of psychologists who argue that mental health must be understood in its social context. These practitioners later formed the Boston Liberation Health Group. The group got its charter around the same time as the Occupy movement and provided mental health services at the local encampment.

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What Michael Bloomberg's Plan to Transfer His Company to Charity Could Mean for Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Alastair Grant, PA Wire, AP Michael Bloomberg has given extensively to education and to nonprofits focused on arts and culture, the environmental, public health, and improving city governments around the world.

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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges. Research reveals how inter-organizational collaborations for social impact often run into structural or governance issues like power asymmetries or a focus on the wrong metric of success.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Issues Education, Health, Security, etc. Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

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From Uprooted to Uplifted: The Movement to Restore Indigenous Land Rights

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A Collective, People-Centered Approach to Conservation Until the early 2000s, fortress conservationsetting up private conservation areas, displacing local and Indigenous groups, and violating their human rightswas the predominant strategy in the environmental field. This short film by If Not Us Then Who?

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. These wins include requiring the U.S.