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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Impact investing, as defined by the Global Impact Investing Network , is an investment tool “made with the intention to generate positive, measurable, social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Journal of Health Economics 21 (2): 293–311.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.