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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. That means transforming the zoning regulations, financial structures, and social patterns that separated them, just over a century ago.

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

A new report by the Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute indicates that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 “unbefriended” or “unrepresented, at-risk” individuals in my home state “face significant risks to their health, safety, and well-being due to decisional incapacity and a lack of financial or social resources.”

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

But it is past time to move from programs to policy. Drawing from our evaluations and other research and best practices in the field, we offer the following recommendations to create a social safety net that works for all people. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

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Rehearsing for the Revolution: Theater as a Tool of Democratic Imagination

NonProfit Quarterly

Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), a tool for artistic activism originating in Brazil and now practiced around the world, is one creative and timely strategy for political and social action. Through this process, TONYC helped to shape city policy and practice between 2013 and 2019. But a TO process doesn’t stop there.

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What a CEO Shooting Can Teach Nonprofits About Our Health Insurance Mess

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: John Kevin on iStock In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompsons murder, the public reacted with nearly universal frustration and anger with the US health insurance industry, and, in many cases, sympathy for the killers motivations. This entire sector is made possible largely through public and private health insurance.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Influencers have taken to social media to promote these devices, which monitor and optimize blood sugar levels to help with weight loss, improve athletic performance, or decrease tiredness. While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets.

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A Call to Coalition: On Whiteness in Healing and Movement Spaces

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: ROCKETMANN TEAM on Pexels The movement work to which I am called requires a multiracial, multigenerational coalition of organizers and advocates to shift policies and systems toward giving power and land back to Indigenous and Black people. I was raised as a Pentecostal Christian (COGIC) by a single, divorced mother.