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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The First Baby Bond Baby Addressing immediate needs alone will never break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Its hard to ignore the prevalence of poverty and near poverty in the United States, with many living paycheck to paycheck , forced to make choices like paying rent or buying foodor covering medical expenses and childcare.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

11 Unique barriers to care, including stigma vis--vis mental health, language discrepancies, and poverty, put Latinx people in the United States at higher risk of receiving inadequate treatment than the broader population. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 Andrew Subica et al.,

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From Fixers to Builders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPCL) introduces Meade as: The former drug user who had been convicted of a felony was building himself a new life. life when he was all three of those things, but who would introduce him that way? He had climbed out of homelessness, incarceration and addiction. Its exhausting.

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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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Get Funds Flowing: Lessons from the Boston Foundation

NonProfit Quarterly

This year, conversations with nonprofit leaders indicated a pressing need for a special funding round to expand the work, and address the need, anxiety, and sense of powerlessness caused by the Trump administration’s efforts to target our communities, both physically and psychologically.

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Disability Under Trump’s Anti-DEI Agenda

NonProfit Quarterly

As the American Psychological Association wrote in 2020 , upon the 30th anniversary of the signing of the ADA: True equality remains elusive, especially for people of color with disabilities and for those whose socioeconomic position makes access to health care and other services more challenging.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The lack of income earned by Black men’s mass incarceration plunged many Black families into poverty for decades, caused the loss of homeownership, and eliminated other opportunities for Black families to build wealth over the long term. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.