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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Nutrisense Inc on Pexels Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are revolutionizing diabetes management. The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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Elevate Conference 2025: Take Your Nonprofit Off Autopilot

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Three Content Tracks At Elevate, you’ll have access to three targeted tracks designed to address the most pressing challenges facing the nonprofit sector: Advocacy and Public Policy: Amplify Your Nonprofit’s Voice Nonprofits are at the forefront of societal change. Using data management to enhance decision-making and operations.

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When Can Volunteers Lead?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takeson the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. This is something that is seldom discussed in management teams. There are multiple aspects of value here.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. To date, 69 fund managers from 38 organizations have participated in one of the first four cohorts, resulting in 18 funds (or pilots of funds) being launched nationwide (9). As one firm states , investors do not have to choose between doing goodi.e.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. Rebekah Barber: Can you tell me about your background and how you got involved with Race Forward? Leslie Grant-Spann: This year is my tenth anniversary on staff. Louis and Ferguson. What do they want?

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US Nonprofit Sector Documents Its Own Powerlessness, but What Will We Do?

NonProfit Quarterly

I have been a managing director, a board member, a board president, a consultant to nonprofits, and taught college courses on nonprofit management and policy at several Chicago universities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors.

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How Can the Nonprofit Field Better Support Volunteerism?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. But organizational culture starts at the top. It is pretty simple to add similar questions about [volunteers].