NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In Rochester, a nine-year-old girl suffering from a mental health crisis who verbalized suicidal thoughts was pepper sprayed by the police officers that responded to her family’s call to 911 for support. Four out of five girls in juvenile detention suffer from a mental health disorder.

Health 96

Health Public and Social Policy Culture Law 96

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

As an attorney, I am often talking to organizers about the limitations of the law. I know that the law can exert a lot of power over folks’ lives, and it is also so not powerful for supporting the causes of tenants. I often describe the law as a tool for moving resources and moving resources only. It’s not a tool for justice.

Law 67

Law Foundations Health 67

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 75

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 75

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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. We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Hot Topics in Health Equity.

Health 84

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 84

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Understanding the role private equity is playing in health care is critical; only then can we begin to design solutions to the healthcare system that center public and community ownership. In 2021, that number was $206 billion, as reported by Kaiser Health News —enough to purchase 1,400 hospitals and other healthcare firms.

Health 114

Health Healthcare Medical Insurance 114

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Legal Issues in Influencer Marketing (+Related Laws & Some Legal Tips) Social media is powerful. Understand the laws governing this digital marketing strategy. Hence, it’s crucial to be aware of the laws governing this marketing strategy. billion active users worldwide, these channels can be very influential.

Law 52

Law Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

Energy 84

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 84

The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This is defined as an occupational challenge for people working and volunteering in the fields of victim services, law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire services, and other allied professions, due to their continuous exposure to victims of trauma and violence by the Office for Victims of Crime.

Health 52

Health Psychology Culture Nonprofits 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In vibrant and thriving communities, people have the power and resources to realize their vision of health and well-being. The importance of housing as a social determinant of health has been well-documented by researchers and philanthropies alike. By Stacey Barbas , Kate McLaughlin , Jessica Mulcahy & Vedette R.

Health 93

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 93

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 16, 2023

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. For some, the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency is a relief. Addressing Ableism in Policy Development In the early days of 2020, the federal government’s response to the pandemic included announcing a public health emergency.

Health 136

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Nonprofit Administration and Development 136

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was born in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) and started working in public health there as a clinical psychologist. I was responsible for mental health in what was, at the time, one of the world’s poorest countries. There I was, talking to parents about lead poisoning, doing what we do so readily in public health: telling people what to do.

Health 112

Health Race and Ethnicity Food Children 112

Candid

JULY 23, 2021

Engaging with local community leaders and residents early and often is key to implementing public health and racial justice approaches to preventing gun violence successfully, a report from the Annie E. Improving Community Safety Through Public Health Strategies: Lessons From Atlanta And Milwaukee." Annie E. Casey Foundation finds.

Health 98

Health Law Foundations Activism 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Despite the evidence to support the efficacy of these sites, this August the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the region’s top law enforcement authority, threatened legal action against the nonprofit, including potentially shutting it down altogether, calling its operations illegal.

Nonprofit governance and management 142

Nonprofit governance and management Law Medical Health 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 22, 2023

Through our work at Brio and at Glasswing , we have witnessed the power of integrating mental health support, awareness, and skill-building to help individuals and communities experience healing and liberation—even in the presence of trauma and grief. It makes collective healing possible, and tells a new story about who we really are.

Health 75

Health Psychology Energy Values 75

Selfish Giving

MAY 22, 2019

Karen is a lawyer who specializes in cause marketing and corporate partnership law. Ten Commandments of Cause Marketing Law. Within the next couple weeks, Karen and I will respond to all your law-related questions! Take Our Partnership Law Survey ?? Instead, I call Karen Wu at Perlman & Perlman ! But no worries!

Law 113

Law Marketing Marketing Leadership 113

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 4, 2024

During the 18th century, the Spanish governor of Louisiana even enacted a law that required free Black women to cover their hair to remind them of their connection to enslaved Black people. In May 2023, the state enacted its version of the CROWN Act when Governor Greg Abbott signed it into law. Take Texas, for instance.

Law 113

Law Health Education Education 113

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Some 100 million Americans—roughly one in three, and closer to 40 percent of adults, according to reporting by the Kaiser Family Foundation Health News and NPR—are saddled with some amount of medical debt, while the number of Americans who live just one unlucky medical bill away from accruing such debt is even larger.

Medical 105

Medical Non-Profits Healthcare Health 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

Environmental 94

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 117

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 117

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Exposed and At Risk: Opportunities to Strengthen Enforcement of Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety was recently released by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School, in partnership with the nonprofit Farmworker Justice. Farmworker deaths continued to be underreported.

Agriculture 88

Agriculture Food Health Law 88

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

These networks, led primarily by women, operate outside of the established medical world and the law to create access to abortion even in states where abortions have become effectively, if not literally, illegal. The existence of these networks has been reported by various news organizations. to establish their own companion networks.

Medical 99

Medical Law Health Governance 99

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. The median cost of repairing a wheelchair, as reported by Harvard Health Publishing , is $150, often an out-of-pocket expense. Another is the red tape of insurance.

Insurance 106

Insurance Law Health Manufacturing 106

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

APRIL 4, 2023

Prest Samanta Helou CLEANWash Mobile, a worker-owned cooperative, is prioritizing job safety, fair wage and hour laws, environmental protection, and community health initiatives for the hand-carwash industry in Los Angeles.

Foundations 94

Foundations Environmental Law Health 94

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Moseley, the university’s president who has since been put on paid administrative leave as an outside law firm investigates the abuse claims. As she prepared to enter the academic workforce herself, she did so with the knowledge that for many Black women, climbing the leadership ladder in academia can be at a cost to their mental health.

Universities 95

Universities Health Leadership Culture 95

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As Kirsten Almberg , a research assistant professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago, wrote in 2022: “ Much of the ‘easy’, or thin-seamed, coal has been mined out.” Some, like Weikle, must retire decades early due to declining health. The new rule would make it 50.

Health 114

Health Universities Construction Environmental 114

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law , which ended the entitlement to cash aid and introduced time-limited benefits tied to work requirements. Breaking these laws could mean fines, arrest, or sentences—forcing them back into unpaid labor on plantations.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Children 132

NonProfit Leadership Center

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She spent more than six years as a prosecutor at the State Attorney’s Office and also worked in private practice, focusing on health care, business transactions, private equity, and real estate. At the end of 2019, I decided to take a leap of faith and transition my career away from the practice of law and into the nonprofit sector.

Nonprofit Leadership 105

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Universities Law 105

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 19, 2024

a half mile from where Paul Revere was arrested) as one of only a few Black families in a white town, her law school professor parents instilled in her and her six siblings a sense of responsibility, accountability and social justice. Antonia Hylton says that growing up outside of Boston in Lincoln, Mass. (a

Health 63

Health Law Universities Values 63

Jeff Brooks

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a secret code used by eye-health professionals. Most nonprofits are connected to some kind of advanced profession — like science, medicine, law, music — the has its own professional discourse. I didn’t get far, but I did see something: One row of codes was labeled OD , and another was OS. Why do they use a secret code?

Ethics 52

Ethics Medical Fundraising Fundraising 52

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Reproductive Health Access Project works at the crossroads of the medical community and the reproductive rights space to mobilize and train clinicians to ensure access to abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care. How did the Reproductive Health Access Project start? We love a good origin story.

Health 50

Health Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Medical 50

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As in the past, that means the experiences and concerns they bring to the table rarely represent the people outside those rooms, or the issues most important to them, like safe, dignified, and stable work that provides a living wage, paid leave, health and retirement benefits.

Technology 92

Technology Law Non-Profits Governance 92

MNA Association

JANUARY 14, 2023

HB2 Part B Health and Human Services HB2 is the monster budget bill which must be passed each session. Part B relates to the Health and Human Services portion of the budget. This concept made it through committee last session but ultimately did not pass on the floor. Please let us know if you have any concerns or suggested edits.

Taxation 52

Taxation Law Charitable Organizations Health 52

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Black codes [laws passed after the Civil War to enforce racial segregation] turned crimes that were formerly misdemeanors into felonies only if they were committed by Black people. By 1968, when all states had a mandatory reporting law, that number grew to 11,000 cases, and Black children were significantly impacted by that.

Children 135

Children Poverty Law Public and Social Policy 135

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

As Mitchell, Smith, and Holmberg point out, this is illegal price discrimination—a violation of the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 , a New Deal-era antitrust law, but it is also very common given lax antitrust enforcement. Dollar stores also negatively impact public health. What is the impact of dollar store expansion on communities?

Retail 124

Retail Food Law Governance 124

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 13, 2023

We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. Prioritizing East Boston’s Air Health One of the biggest air polluters in East Boston is Logan Airport, where drivers often idle, their fumes poisoning the surrounding area.

Race and Ethnicity 110

Race and Ethnicity Health Environmental Children 110

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. A 2015 study by the US Forest Service notes : National forest law enforcement officers regularly encounter “nonrecreational” campers whose tenure exceeds established stay limits (generally 2 weeks).

Homelessness 104

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 104

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Scott served seven years in prison after being arrested on federal drug charges shortly after obtaining his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1994. They don’t want to talk about mental health. He pledged to invest in jobs and training, health and mental wellness, after-school programs, and wraparound services.

Poverty 127

Poverty Health Education Education 127