NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

Leonardo Cuello , a public policy research professor at Georgetown University and critic of the proposed Medicaid cuts, described them as “the largest and most damaging cuts in the program’s history.” These organizations frequently offer direct medical aid or help families navigate available public and private health resources.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 13, 2025

Orbns policies have also extended to academic institutions, as seen in the passage of Lex CEU in 2017, which forced CEU one of two universities in the country that offers a masters program in gender studiesto leave the country and relocate to Austria. Hungarian police have also targeted safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.

Civil Society

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 26, 2025

Likewise, health issues are exacerbated by poor water quality, food shortages, heat exhaustion, cold waves, and air pollution, with the need for money for medical support a leading factor in trapping them in bonded labor.

Public and Social Policy

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical debt relief programs might not be the panacea that proponents hope, despite the good intentions behind such programs. Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health.

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This includes caring for children of course, but people who cannot afford the sky-high costs of care facilities or at-home nursing support often rely on other family members across generations to provide elder care or medical support. It is time for guaranteed income to become public policy across the United States.

Public and Social Policy

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 5, 2024

This year’s conference goals “to build your career, your business, your wealth, with joy not burnout; to engage men in the work for gender equality and to get the public policies that impact your life,” are especially relevant, says Gloria Feldt, Take The Lead’s co-founder and president. Sophia Yen, MD., “ Dr.

Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2024

Medical costs take a huge bite out of household budgets in the United States and can prevent people from getting care at all. It is, of course, counterproductive for companies to support efforts like these while they advocate for public policies known to exacerbate inequality.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JANUARY 8, 2022

Fair voting rights mean our clients have access to making decisions for themselves medically, financially, and personally. With these Public Policy Principles approved, your leadership team can move forward to create your policy agenda. You can’t do public policy work in a silo. Collaborate!

Public Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Medical data registries have set the standard. That means using standardized language for the key concepts, even if those concepts are more complex in nature—like DNA, carbon emissions, or medical intervention. Next, a registry needs to capture data elements with specific and consistent data definitions.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

The program now also offers services and support such as grocery cards, free medical care and transportation, and training programs for economic independence. The pandemic increased caregiving demands among women, underscoring gender inequity. Currently, this program benefits more than 700 caregivers and their families in the municipality.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

This network works to collectively influence change across Minnesota, including through a nascent effort at the University of Minnesota Medical School that convenes community leaders and academic advisory boards across the university to address how the institution as a whole engages with community leaders.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 18, 2024

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. She'd been pushing for a domestic violence bill in her state legislature for three years.

Public and Social Policy

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

Race and Ethnicity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 9, 2024

And over the past decade, public policy—by way of the Lei de Cotas (the “Quotas Law”), which establishes university quotas for Black and Indigenous students and people who studied in public schools—has made higher education more accessible to racialized and poor people.

Public and Social Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

. “In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

Disaster Relief

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

In the preface to her book, Quart echoes this theme, citing current maladies such as “unstable jobs, unpayable college and medical debt loads…and a byzantine financial and tax system that benefits the wealthiest” (xi). That markets work and public policies fail. Orestes and Conway give an easy, if perhaps unsatisfying, answer.

Public and Social Policy

Fundraising Leadership

JULY 14, 2023

She is also a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit. Army Reserve where she commanded units, serving as the first nurse and female commanding general of a medical brigade with responsibility for wartime readiness of all the U.S. Army Reserve medical assets in the Southeastern United States, including Puerto Rico.

Medical

Anedot

JUNE 15, 2022

The 2021 Heart of Sonoma County Awards Were Presented To: Corporate Community Service, Sponsored by CVNL.Anesthesia & Analgesia Medical Group, Inc. His duties include feeding and caring for hundreds of baby songbirds and assisting hospital staff with medical exams and treatments; Galen Freed, Sonoma Ecology Center.

Nonprofit Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JULY 8, 2023

Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, will be a key player in mobilizing nonprofits across the state We’re excited to welcome Sherry Rout, our new Director of Government Relations and Public Policy!

Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Roberts family, still facing various charges of overstaying on federal land, remains homeless—they’re currently living in a hotel room, and have launched a campaign to pay for Brooks’s medical expenses. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.” It’s bad for the homeless people it impacts.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When Johns was injured, she recalls, “Our partners we met through Intersectional Fridays were the ones who got the medic pack and pressed it on Jacob’s body while we waited for paramedics to come. We engage in community organizing to understand how laws impact everyone,” said Tiffany Roberts, public policy director at SCHR. “We

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

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.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

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.

Health

Anedot

JANUARY 16, 2025

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Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. Rudd, Christina F.

Leadership

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2024

By vastly accelerating the antibiotic discovery process, generative AI—together with sound public policy—could play a part in solving the life-and-death struggle against AMR. In so doing, it could spark a renaissance in antibiotic research and development, giving the medical community an enormous leg up in the race to defeat superbugs.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2024

45 Additionally, worker cooperatives, once marginal in the world of public policy, have since 2018 won an impressive string of legislative victories at both the federal and state level. Esteban Kelly and Mo Manklang, “Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy,” Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine 30, no.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. Wages have stagnated for the past 50 years, while wealth inequality has reached unprecedented levels. Healthcare, education, and housing have all become unaffordable.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” Without savings, debtors are forced to accrue additional debt—credit card, auto, mortgage, medical—to cover everyday needs while paying down loans. This prevents communities of color from saving and transferring wealth across generations.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Evidence from Hospital Mergers , was authored by Zarek Brot-Goldberg , a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, along with five economists from the US Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and top US universities. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has some answers.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 29, 2025

Doing so would further exacerbate the medical debt crisis. As researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation found in the 2021 Survey of Income and Program Participation , medical debt already burdens 20 million adults. Overall, people in the in the United States owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. million and 14.4

Medical