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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Entering HLTH (pronounced “health”), an annual conference focused on the business of health—from healthcare startups to government agencies and insurance companies—feels as overwhelming as healthcare itself. Where we need to go as healthcare and where we need to go as a nation…we need a new story.

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” including cancelling the full remaining balance for roughly 20 million borrowers.”.

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

Healthcare. Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Southern Poverty Law Center.