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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. Its a different kind of organizing and activism, Theoharis explains.

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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

She has spearheaded innovation in heart and stroke prevention with AHA active in more than 100 countries. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. AHA has invested more than $5.9 billion to accelerate scientific discoveries and drive innovation using new technologies.

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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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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Workers with jobs that provide these essential benefits can spend more time with their families, pursue education, and engage in leisure activities, which increases job satisfaction and quality of life. Balanced, Healthy Lives Steady schedules and paid time off contribute to a healthier work-life balance.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.

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Read, Listen, Learn: 13 Great Books by Women Authors for Women’s History Month

Fundraising Leadership

Its an active state of heightened receptivity. The author, is an award-winning Medical Oncologist specializing in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Michael Antman Seaman writes that reading is a form of inebriation, but not of abandon.

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