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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While these solutions are important and advance every year, public health is increasingly challenged by factors that are outside what we traditionally define as the health care sector. Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. They drive change through networks and relationships, and use the power and influence that emerges.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. Admittedly, they are relatively new (Crowley 2014; Katz et al.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Using the SDGs as a common platform, they hosted a regional collaborative exercise using the 17 Rooms methodology to bring together representatives from Central Florida’s public, private, academic, and nonprofit sectors across the full range of issues reflected in the SDGs.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. They currently live in public housing, and the pathway to homeownership is filled with barriers. However, houses in the neighborhood are unaffordable, and living in public housing limits her independence.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

For their part, the occupants of the national office were content with this relationship: the dues allowed the national headquarters to engage in an advocacy strategy reliant upon public relations and court battles to eventually change the legal status of Black Americans. In a quest to grow the mission, organizations hired managers.