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Disaster Recovery Requires Community Care—But Also Government Support

NonProfit Quarterly

They worked with a volunteer pharmacist to ensure that people could get their emergency medications and sent volunteers to help elders and those living in senior living facilities flush their toilets. The organization was also intentional about supporting those who were particularly vulnerable, such as elders and people with disabilities.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. The Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

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Trans Refugees: What Trans People Need to Know About Finding Safety Abroad

NonProfit Quarterly

In my case, I would need to see if my medications are accessible with ease, and if not which ones my epileptologist would recommend, Valentine said. Likewise, I have a medical life-saving implant which will eventually need replacing, and I am unsure of whether I would be able to get a replacement easily outside the country.

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Antionette Kerr : How I Became a Self-Care Radical

NonProfit Hub

Department of Housing and Urban Development) transitions threatened most aspects of our funding, I said “yes” to more than 12 local and state boards while serving as an executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit and vice president of our state coalition. At a time when HUD (U.S. Smith Reynolds Sabbatical Foundation (ZSR).

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development. I talked about how that food could be easily repackaged into healthy meals for communities in need.