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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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How Limited Equity Co-ops Can Sustain Affordable Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

One tool that is available to nonprofit housing developers to address this situation is the limited equity cooperative (LEC). Additionally, millions of Americans reside in manufactured housing communities, often called mobile home parks, which do provide affordable housing. In New York City, such a framework is in place.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. As such, it involves dealing with the tensions between homeowners and tenants , the influence of money in politics and housing, and the public resistance to higher taxes and fees.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

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Manifesting Love by **DALL-E 3/ **openai.com/dalle 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? 8 This concern is valid, as AI has already begun reshaping such sectors as manufacturing, healthcare, and legal services.9

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

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The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE 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? AI models are mirrors that are manufactured to produce certain kinds of reflections of human intelligence. Or take public benefits.

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What San Antonio Can Learn from Its German Sister City amid a Rise in Migration

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Darmstadt, a city of more than 168,000, is striving to balance the influx of newcomers while also managing the social and economic implications of diversifying populations. Darmstadt Mayor Hanno Benz addresses the crowd at a public event. It is rarely straightforward. Photo courtesy of Roco Guenther. Quatsch (Nonsense) for Germany!