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Building an Economic Case for Policy Changes

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Why Economics is your friend as a nonprofit advocate By Kevin Dean, President & CEO Tennessee Nonprofit Network Last year, at a conference out of town, I shared coffee with an old friend as she recounted her incredible public policy journey. Nonprofits excel at highlighting the human cost of social issues.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Almeida defines structural racism as a broadening of the notion of institutional racism, and argues that institutions are only the materialization of a social structure or a means of socialization whose components include racism. Yet Brazil has seen growing racial awareness in recent years.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

And according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, poor perinatal mental health claims the lives of one in five women in the United States. Medical encounters often left the study participants feeling unsupported and put down due to negative stereotyping. Most of the women affected never receive treatment.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

We’re not talking about the lack of funding for our public health system. Tyler, Chief Health Officer at RHIA Ventures, took participants through an analysis of the healthcare harms that Black women have experienced over the centuries, from medical experimentation on enslaved women to forced sterilization. And we’ve got to get there.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Gender Inequity in Latin America Gender inequalities have deep and complex roots in economic, social, and political structures around the world. These entrenched social norms deeply impact women’s lives and opportunities. Currently, this program benefits more than 700 caregivers and their families in the municipality.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s about shrinking the state—or its social programs, at least rhetorically. These policies have real-world effects. They argue that the country faces a crisis in capitalism, one that politics rooted in more generous social programs and greater market regulation could correct. But what is meant by neoliberalism?

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. In 2016, six women of color in the Colorado organizing and social justice movement ecosystem came together and formed Transformative Leadership for Change.