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Industry Overviews: Online Grocery Sales & Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC

Selfish Giving

Cough & Cold Medicine Manufacturing OTC This industry manufactures over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold treatments and suppressants. Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC Johnson & Johnson Example of Johnson & Johnson Better Health for All: At Johnson & Johnson , we actively engage in our communities across the globe.

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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This reality shouldn't justify exploitation but rather highlight that our current economic systems fail to value forms of labor that are critical for community health. Yet creativity is essential to fortifying Americas social fabric, community health, and local economies.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

It also hit manufactured housing communities, home to many in the tourism and service industries that drive the states economy. The largest cash donor was Asheville-based Dogwood Health Trust , which committed $10 million to the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and $40 million for local agencies immediate response activities.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. The growing popularity [of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)]as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Vertical integrationfrom manufacturing to retailalso allows private equity firms to maximize profits across the supply chain. Private Equitys Investment in the Wheelchair Industry Several key factors have made the industry attractive to private equity investors. For one, an aging population ensures steady demand for mobility equipment.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While some tech-for-good companies are creating AI and thrivingDigital Green, Khan Academy, and Jacaranda Health, among manymost social sector companies are not ready to build AI solutions. When Nexleaf started in 2009, its co-founders aspired to bring the value of consistent sensor data to low-resource health systems.

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Newsletter: Funding Freeze: What Nonprofits Must Do NOW; How to Approach Audience Research; FCC Investigates PBS, NPR Sponsorship Practices

Selfish Giving

For example, a morning-after pill manufacturer is partnering with Louisiana health clinics to donate its contraceptive in the House Speakers home state every time Mike and his colleagues try to shut down access, spread misinformation or spew anti-contraception messaging.