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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

Women in law enforcement in the U.S. “ Women in #law #enforcement in the U.S. Recruiting and hiring more women for law enforcement roles can help meet the growing demand. With barriers often called the “brass ceiling” for women in law enforcement, Chan Shue’s successful career at NYPD and beyond is noteworthy. “

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision. Yet, replicating this transformation in many other hotels in New York did not lower the number of homeless people.

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Housing and Health: Creating Solutions With Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Decades of discriminatory housing, transportation, and land-use policy combined with economic disinvestment have resulted in communities that are residentially segregated by income, race, ethnicity, language, and immigration status.

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Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework

NonProfit Quarterly

Urgent services include everything from urgent care clinics to food pantries and homeless shelters, or services needed following a shock like a natural disaster or pandemic. The vital conditions framework aims to shift how people think about health and wellbeing, particularly by recognizing the shortcomings of overreliance on urgent services.

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Redesigning the Birth Experience of Native Parents: A Case Study of Community Codesign

NonProfit Quarterly

The hospital already had strong working partnerships with other communities, notably Latinx communities and also homeless populations, whose health disparities were strongly linked to their culture and existing societal inequities. These included: Changing California state law.

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