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How the Climate Crisis is Changing Mental Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Several mental healthcare initiatives are approaching care by mobilizing those experiencing eco-anxiety to channel their emotions toward climate action. Environmental Mental Healthcare in the Global South In many countries in the Global South, making mental healthcare truly accessible and intersectional has been a challenge.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. Instead, it looks as though the management and administrative duties associated with Jackson’s water are likely to become privatized.

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

His ideas changed paradigms of public health and human rights, and he demonstrated that it’s possible to deliver world-class medical care to people in the most resource-poor settings imaginable. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

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Pollution Has a Class Problem in Thailand and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

They need to use the public bus…the air flows inside the bus.” Such workers are also less likely to have access to healthcare coverage—or labor protections that allow them to take paid time away from work. Those living in poverty, near highways or dump sites, or without access to clean cooking options are also at higher risk.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. Then I did more studying at the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health. These are the things people brought to their healthcare providers. I was a financial aid student in medical school. It was in and out.

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Barbie and the Problem of Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Everything about Barbie ’s publicity so far—from Robbie’s referential press tour outfits to the millions being made from brand partnerships—is a profitable testament to the cultural power of the Mattel corporation. company that is managing franchises.” The specialty was: We make items. Now we are an I.P.

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How to Make the Ask of a Gift in a Will Less Scary

iMarketSmart

Examples include, “Would you be willing to consider including us as one of the nonprofit organizations in your will?”[18] Identity preface theory A compelling fundraising ask (or “challenge”) will include the steps of The resulting enhanced identity can be public (reputation) or private (personal meaning). 69] Let that sink in.