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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

” The report , Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy Can Better Support Black-led and Black-benefiting Nonprofits , is based on a survey of over 200 such organizations conducted by YBGB. Engage in broad systems analysis to better understand and address the context in which the work of Black-led nonprofits occurs.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Social Finance in North America.”

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Philanthropy would do well to follow a similar strategy. This approach has been key to the remarkable progressive reshaping of California’s policy landscape, as well as to changes of national significance like Georgia’s blue shift. The forces of oppression that pushed people into the streets in L.A.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. To illustrate, here are three examples of registries as they work in those different sectors: health care, genetic research, and climate change. Health Care: Patient Registries. By Jason Saul.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” How do social movements, nonprofits, and philanthropy align to realize this goal? What do we bring with us into this future, and what do we leave behind?