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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

The time has come, however, for comprehensive reform recognizing guardianship not as a routine administrative process but as a valued and necessary intervention to be used only as a last resort. Rather than defaulting to protective custody, policy should seek to preserve individual agency and dignity.

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4 Strategies for Building Lasting Volunteer Relationships

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However, in order to develop a volunteer base you can rely on, you need to build lasting, meaningful relationships with them. When volunteers sign up with your nonprofit, ask them up front how they prefer you get in touch with them. Providing public recognition. Using preferred communication channels.

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In Sierra Leone, Nonprofits Are on the Frontline Against Mpox

NonProfit Quarterly

The recent outbreak in Africa has raised concern due to increased transmission in urban areas, affecting communities with limited access to healthcare. Sierra Leone is one of the countries with such vulnerability, with growing urban areas with limited access to healthcare.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Legal justice, environmental justice, racial and social justice. Michael Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations Development Institute What does justice mean in Native American communities? Those are two of the big questions asked in a new report from the First Nations Development Institute (First Nations). Our voices are invisible.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? However, the pressing need for equity as relates to both the tech industry and healthcare makes digital health a very complex challenge.

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The Continued Threat to LGTBQ+ Communities—and What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know

NonProfit Quarterly

LGBTQ+ people—especially transgender youth—have been increasingly targeted by the Trump administration. The impact on nonprofits and the communities they serve has been devastating. Nonprofits serving queer and trans communities are doing so much with too little.”

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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

Richard Wolff, cofounder of the nonprofit media organization Democracy at Work and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elaborated on the CBO data. A Nonprofit Response Greg Harrell-Edge, the founder and CEO at the nonprofit-network platform ProImpact Project, is fully aware of these facts.