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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

These farmers also successfully advocated for a system of federally backed cooperative banks and joined together to form farmer-owned insurance pools, allowing agriculture cooperatives to form, including prominent brands like Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray. Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance.

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Pacific Source Insurance Options

MNA Association

You may call us a health insurance carrier, but there’s more to it. The post Pacific Source Insurance Options first appeared on Montana Nonprofit Association. Our mission is to provide better health, better care, and better cost to the people and communities we serve.

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Your Nonprofit Team: Attracting, Retaining Talent

The NonProfit Times

Think beyond health insurance. By creating an inclusive, supportive environment and investing in peoples growth, your organization will be ready to face new challenges and expand its impact. ** Jackie Sue Griffin is owner and executive director of Jackie Sue Griffin Associates in Tampa, Florida.

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New Health Insurance and Retirement Plans Coming for Tennessee Nonprofits

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Last week, I proudly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that unlocks a new, affordable health insurance option exclusively for our nonprofit members. Our President & CEO, Kevin Dean, signs documents that will allow nonprofits across Tennessee to have access to a new insurance plan. And that's not all! Email us to find out.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

Just three years ago, the American Psychiatric Association admitted to a history replete with discrimination, abusive experimentation, and victimization of BIPOC communities in the name of scientific evidence. 10 Only 35.1 percent of Latinx Americans with mental illness receive treatment annuallythe US average is 46.2

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Im standing in the Kenyan Parliament shoulder-to-shoulder with 62 other community health workers (CHWs) from our Kenyan advocacy association, speaking to decision-makers in one unified voice with a clear demand: Pay us for our labor. Funders can support grassroots advocacy associations of CHWs, like the one in Kenya featured in this article.

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An AWP Conference in the Wake of Climate Disaster

NonProfit Quarterly

Its AWP: The Association of Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference for the nonprofit of the same name, which serves creative writers, academics, publishers, and literary journal and book editors. Its hard, if not impossible, to quantify the damages we will incur in the next few years, restaurant owner Francesco Zimone told the Post.