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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. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M.

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How the State of the People Power Tour Is Building Power and Amplifying Black Voices

NonProfit Quarterly

Seven of the tours 10 stops are in states that are disproportionately impacted by regressive policies, such as voter suppression laws and the refusal of state governments to expand Medicaid , even though more than half of Black and Latine children rely on Medicaid or the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare coverage.

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How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused

NonProfit Quarterly

Because unhoused people spend long periods of time outdoors, its harder for them to receive public health alerts about upcoming weather events. For example, in Philadelphia , theres the Heatline , a special phone number that residents can call for information about health concerns or questions related to heat.

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Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out

NonProfit Quarterly

In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. The network spans dozens of federal agencies—from veterans’ services to environmental protection, from public health to infrastructure.

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How States Can Link Up to Support Human Rights

NonProfit Quarterly

By leveraging these compacts, states that share a vision of government as a protector and facilitator of human rights can collectively build robust structures to safeguard political and economic rights, even when federal institutions fail. Project 2025 is not a scattershot effort.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Flora and fauna were thriving, and its water was as clean as other urban lakes. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.