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A Bigger We

CNPE

all want a vibrant and safe downtown,” but am I really thinking about what would make a homeless family feel safe downtown? It means intentionally working to ensure that you are including people of different races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, and ages in your vision of “we.”. Or I could say: “.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Residents, regardless of zip code or how much money they have, can breathe clean air, eat healthy and culturally appropriate food, and have a safe, affordable place to call home. When housing is unaffordable, it leaves little money left over to buy healthy foods and critical medicines.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

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RESOURCE REVIEW: “A Progressive’s Style Guide” Helps Unlock Power of Language to Shape and Change the World

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Used: low-income, persons experiencing homelessness. Used: food insecurity, hunger, starvation. Avoided: famine, food stamps, the hungry. RACE/ETHNICITY. Used: deaf, on the autism spectrum, person with… Avoided: deaf ears, suffering from…, victim of. Avoided: disadvantaged, the needy, less fortunate.

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Redesigning the Birth Experience of Native Parents: A Case Study of Community Codesign

NonProfit Quarterly

The hospital already had strong working partnerships with other communities, notably Latinx communities and also homeless populations, whose health disparities were strongly linked to their culture and existing societal inequities.

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