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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. The confusion about when the repair deadline countdown beginswhether from initial request or after insurance approvalhas exacerbated these service issues.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

These farmers also successfully advocated for a system of federally backed cooperative banks and joined together to form farmer-owned insurance pools, allowing agriculture cooperatives to form, including prominent brands like Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray. Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance.

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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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Merging Nonprofit Organizations: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know

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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

For those without insurance, the consequences can be even more devastating. While laws and penalties exist to encourage insurance coverage, they often fail to address the root causesfinancial hardship, lack of awareness, and systemic barriers. Without insurance, accident victims often have little recourse.

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Bilingual Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Staff Attorney

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Description: The Family & Childrens Law Center has an excellent opportunity for a bilingual (Spanish) staff attorney, who will focus on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases. Family & Childrens Law Center is looking to hire part- time (25-32 hours per week), but we are open to hiring full-time for the right candidate.

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Intern Program Assistant

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A DMV check will be required by Ceres insurance policy. Ceres Organization Founded in 2007, Ceres Community Project works to build healthy communities by restoring whole, organic and locally grown food to its place as the foundation of health, empowering youth, and connecting people in heart-centered ways to others and the earth.