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

NonProfit Quarterly

There is good reason to wonder whether collecting all types of suffering into medicalized mental health disorders is the most accurate or ethical approach when it comes to addressing these crises,” says Dr. Zenobia Morrill , a psychology professor at William James College. These practitioners later formed the Boston Liberation Health Group.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health. Yet creativity is essential to fortifying Americas social fabric, community health, and local economies.

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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.

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The Problem of Clothing Donations in LA and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2020, NPQ reported on research published in Environmental Health ,which found that approximately 85 percent of the clothing Americans consume, nearly 3.8 billion pounds annually, is sent to landfills as solid waste, amounting to nearly 80 pounds per American per year.

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Balancing Mission With Human-Centered Leadership

The Charity CFO

In this episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, host Tosha Anderson sat down with Kathryn Hoffman, CEO of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA), to discuss how to balance a big mission with human-centered leadership. Go straight to the full video here!

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Guarding Trust: Overlooked Factors That Protect Your Nonprofit’s Reputation

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Example: Ethical Vendor Selection A sustainability-focused nonprofit decides to switch to an eco-friendly printing company after learning that their previous vendor had committed environmental violations. This proactive change reinforces their commitment to their mission.

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Trends in education funding’s share of philanthropic giving 

Candid

Between 2015 and 2022, education nonprofits consistently received the largest percentage of total grant dollars from institutional grantmakersan average of 27%followed by health (21%) and public benefit organizations (19%). By contrast, institutional grantmakers of all sizes focused more heavily on education and health.

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