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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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Finance: AMA Pushes For Charity Care Accountability

The NonProfit Times

Image from [link] Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and standardization of charity care policies so financial assistance reaches patients in need. Hospitals are eligible for nonprofit status, which exempts them from income, property, and sales taxes.

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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

Medical debt relief programs might not be the panacea that proponents hope, despite the good intentions behind such programs. Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health.

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Why U.S. Urgently Needs Leadership Gender Parity: How Power Up Conference Gets You There

Fundraising Leadership

This year’s conference goals “to build your career, your business, your wealth, with joy not burnout; to engage men in the work for gender equality and to get the public policies that impact your life,” are especially relevant, says Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead’s co-founder and president. Sophia Yen, MD., In other comparisons, the U.S.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is not the first sector to grapple with measurement—fields like health care, genetic research, and climate change share similar complications: highly differentiated participants, infinite combinations of interventions, complex outcomes, and lots of exogenous variables. Health Care: Patient Registries.

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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. Crucially, the CEO and board empowered the committee to recommend bold changes.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Ensure the entire workforce receives fair compensation and benefits that support worker and family health. Medical costs take a huge bite out of household budgets in the United States and can prevent people from getting care at all. Of course, meeting the needs of workers goes beyond wages.