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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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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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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Theoharis is the executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice , which found that roughly 140 million or 43.3 An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Thats why, in public policy circles, we must nurture and reward innovation in as well as from AI. We need policies that support a robust system of IP rights in order to develop successful AI models. Throughout this processimproving, applying, and using AIthe human element is essential.

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Resiliency Strategies for Nonprofits in Times of Political and Financial Instability

NonProfit Quarterly

The email informed the nonprofits, which provide critical intervention services for family, domestic, and dating violence, that the grant orientation was canceled, effective immediately with no reason given, and that the government office had been instructed to refrain from public speaking engagements, including communication with the nonprofits.

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Family Care Specialist

Anedot

Under the direction of the Senior Manager, the Family Care Specialist is responsible for enhancing direct assistance and professional intervention to Alzheimers families and to foster cooperative relationships with the local community health and social service professionals.

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What the Anti-Slavery Movement Can Offer for a Livable Climate

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Poverty, social exclusion, and a lack of worker rights have long been drivers of trafficking and bonded labor, but the ecological damage wreaked by climate change not only supercharges those forms of vulnerability but, in turn, leads desperate workers to carry out further destruction.