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Averting Disaster through Preparation: A Conversation with Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore

NonProfit Quarterly

The pandemic also created opportunities for exchange and mutual learning between experts and non-experts as everyone worked to mobilize recourses, develop solutions, and otherwise minimize the devastation by collectively working to prevent the spread of the virus. Outbreak response and policy around outbreak response is our area of expertise.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Increasingly, media coverage frames Black maternal health as a “crisis.” The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Unexpected evidence of this comes from demographer Christopher Wildeman’s rigorous investigation of the population-level health consequences of mass incarceration. Wildeman examined the relationship between changes in the national imprisonment rate and changes in American life expectancy, a central indicator of overall population health.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. This reading list covers topics related to each panel, including global threats to democracy, workplace power, capitalism, civic engagement, and more. March 14, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.