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Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis

NonProfit Quarterly

In Connecticut, despite a 2024 law mandating a 10-business-day deadline and eliminating prior authorization for wheelchair repairs, many users continue to experience significant delays. million in April 2023 to settle allegations of defrauding federal healthcare programs in Illinois. Colorado passed a similar law two years earlier.

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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

A Care Cooperative in Quebec City Meets Community Health Needs This year’s Cigale music festival , held over three days in August at Baie de Beauport beach in the Port of Quebec, was a great success. The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

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? 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. Neuroscience, broadly, deals with the nervous system and the brain, including mental health. 10 Only 35.1

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

How Guardianship Fails the Most Vulnerable The current guardianship system is flawed and carries profound human consequences, as well as straining an already overtaxed healthcare system. Nonprofits can also engage in sustained legislative advocacy to reform the foundational assumptions embedded in guardianship law.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle 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? 8 This concern is valid, as AI has already begun reshaping such sectors as manufacturing, healthcare, and legal services.9

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Merging Nonprofit Organizations: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know

Nonprofit Fixer

Our clients needed full-scale behavioral health, substance abuse, and primary care services. This includes reviewing all of the following for both nonprofit organizations: Board By-Laws Articles of Incorporation Organizational Charts Copies of all MOUs, contracts, leases, or agreements. Basically, a one-stop shop.

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Driving Without a Safety Net: How Nonprofits Are Helping People Recover from Car Accidents

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

While laws and penalties exist to encourage insurance coverage, they often fail to address the root causesfinancial hardship, lack of awareness, and systemic barriers. Free clinics and community health centers often serve as lifelines for those who have no other healthcare options.