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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sheringham Odhiambo , Madeleine Ballard , Ben Pyne & Kathryn Harrison Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for residents of Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Thomas Tighe Reflects on 24 Years Leading the International Health Nonprofit Direct Relief

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Associated Press SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) Tighe helped transform its operations, embracing technology and courting corporate partners, guided by the idea that a nonprofit health venture could and should run as efficiently as a commercial one.

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Community Health Centers' New Crisis: The Need for Backup Power

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Unreliable power is a widespread problem for community health centers, which serve more than 30 million patients at 14,000 locations. By Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Associated Press HEALDSBURG, Calif. Unreliable power is a widespread problem for community health centers, which serve more than 30 million patients at 14,000 locations.

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Honest Brokers, Technology, and Health Justice: What Are We Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

The honest broker collects and provides aggregate health data to investigators while protecting individual identities and privacy. DAOs are commonly associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency communities, but the decentralized governance approach of a DAO can be applied in other contexts. The first is resource allocation.

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Gates Foundation Pledges $7 Billion for Health, Gender Equality, and Farming in Africa

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Evelyne Musambi, the Associated Press Nairobi, Kenya. Evan Vucci/AP Bill Gates's new pledge will be spent over the next four years and is in addition to existing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding to strengthen health systems across the continent.

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Volunteering Would Feel Good Even If It Didn't Have Health Benefits. But It Does

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Albert Stumm, Associated Press Robert Piechota, via AP Jeff Kellert, seen in his garden in Albany, N.Y., Research has revealed a connection between volunteering and more positive emotions, less loneliness and more social support. began volunteering as a tutor and helped with monthly dinners at his synagogue.

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MacArthur Fellows Awarded for Work on Reproductive Health, Climate, and Arts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Thalia Beaty, Associated Press John D. The 20 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend as they see fit. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Patrick Makuakāne’s choreography and dance have blended hula with contemporary influences while uplifting Hawaiian languages and histories.

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