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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates.

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Three Whys, Three Times (Blog)

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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REI Workers Look to Shake up Co-op’s Board Amid Push for a First Contract

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, management recalcitrance has stymied workers efforts to win a first contract, so the REI Union is trying a new tactic: Running candidates for the board of the 24-million-member outdoor equipment retailer, the nations largest cooperative. REI has nine elected board members , who serve staggered three-year terms.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? Those are two of the big questions asked in a new report from the First Nations Development Institute (First Nations). Our voices are invisible.

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Cancer Research in the US Is World Class Because of Its Broad Base of Funding—with the Government Pulling Out, Its Future Is Uncertain

NonProfit Quarterly

Since the 1971 National Cancer Act , this sustained public investment has helped drive dramatic declines in cancer mortality, with death rates falling by 34 percent since 1991. The second Trump administration has cut or canceled many NIH grants. The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars of biomedical research funding.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? are exploring ways to help individuals manage and monetize personal data. 18 Platforms like Nebula Genomics and Hu-manity.co

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash In Minneapolis, MN, licensed clinical social workers, like Andrea Hansen-Miller, work in one of the citys public libraries. Because unhoused people spend long periods of time outdoors, its harder for them to receive public health alerts about upcoming weather events.