Health Medical Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2024
These workers are often forced to choose between risking their health or their income, especially as climate change only increases the likelihood of wildfires, which in turn drives up the number of airborne toxins. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), pollution can also increase the risk of respiratory infection and lung cancer.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 15, 2022
In response to research that shows nearly 1 in 3 nonprofits lack any professionals of color on their boards (BoardSource) and to foster more inclusive and equitable communities, the Nonprofit Leadership Center launched the Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship in 2021. Meet the 2022 Fellows.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. Such lack of access is an injustice that feeds poor health outcomes, including higher rates of chronic diseases, such as diabetes. I lived here as a young child and do again today. Black excellence abounds here.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 15, 2023
By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. A lot of nonprofits fall into that category. Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed. How does it function?
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 21, 2023
Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Example: “Do you have any experience with a budget for your family or managing money for a community project?”)
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 20, 2023
Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.
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