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Incoherent Policy Threatens Overdose Prevention Sites

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Jonas Verstuyft on Unsplash Since opening in 2021, a New York overdose prevention program operated by the nonprofit OnPoint NYC claims to have saved some 1,000 lives by allowing clients to consume drugs in a safe environment with access to medical care, treatment, counseling, and case management.

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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While many consider this rise in loneliness to be largely a social problem, communities around the world are applying innovative public health approaches to connecting people not only to each other but to health professionals and systems that can provide much-needed support. for every £1 invested.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Pollution Has a Class Problem in Thailand and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

They need to use the public bus…the air flows inside the bus.” Byproducts of climate change, such as poor nutritional options and air pollution, can increase non-communicable diseases, like heart disease,” Dr. Maria Guevara, international medical secretary at Médecins Sans Frontiéres, or Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.

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Program Management Statistics: 12 Stats and How to Use Them

Get Fully Funded

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Services Delivered.

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The State of Black Women Leadership Is In Danger

NonProfit Quarterly

Metro Area Nonprofit Sector. For example, at the end of an event I attended this summer of about 50 Black nonprofit and philanthropic leaders, as we milled around saying our goodbyes, Black women shared that they were on medication—mostly anxiety, depression, and heart medicine—as a result of taking leadership.