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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Through research over the years, the organization has shown how environmental harm impacts health, housing, jobs, education, and its persistence throughout communities of color along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor—also known as Cancer Alley, or sometimes Death Alley — and the broader Gulf Coast Region.

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Facebook and their outsourcing companies like Samasource, now Sama, refuse to provide proper, meaningful psychiatric care resulting in serious, long-term mental health illnesses for many of these workers. There’s good old-fashioned health and safety violations too. Daniel and his colleagues worked in dangerous conditions.

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Why Funders Should Go Meta

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That would certainly help those people financially, and perhaps in terms of their health as well. The median new cancer drug improves lifespan by only around two months, so good health outcomes are by no means guaranteed.). On the other hand, you could invest in innovative cancer research. Or consider clinical trials in medicine.

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The Risks of Carbon Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Global CCS Institute, a think tank dedicated to researching and developing the technology behind CCS, calls the technology a “game-changer” that can build a path to a “zero-carbon economy.” 3 The first step is “capturing” the carbon, often from the air, from places like power plants, by using post-combustion capture technology.

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How to Fight Power by Building Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Urban areas are home to 80 percent of the US population, produce and hold most of our nation’s wealth, have tremendous power via public policy and budgets, and are where most people directly feel the impact of government and organizing in their daily lives. PowerSwitch Action focuses on cities as key strategic terrain.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

Not only has AI forever altered the technological landscape, but it also carries monumental and potentially corrosive impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal terrain that makes up our everyday lives. Among the most recent and rapid developments of AI is facial recognition technology.