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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, 24 percent of seniors living in the US are classified as socially isolated, which is associated with an approximately 50 percent increased risk of developing dementia, a 32 percent increased risk of stroke, a 68 percent increased risk of hospitalization, and 57 percent increased risk of emergency department visits.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

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No Wonder Retention of Online Donors is So Bad

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Southern Poverty Law Center sent me one email in April asking for a renewal. I have received no online communication at all from the American Heart Association (they sent one piece of direct mail, but I think I get it every year) or the National Military Family Association. One direct mail ask.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Billions of dollars in energy infrastructure and its associated profits are no longer hoarded by a handful of wealthy investors, utility executives, and shareholders; instead, they are deployed for shared prosperity to eliminate the racial wealth divide and to create meaningful, joyous, living-wage work for those formerly excluded from the economy.

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Local Militias Step into Government Gaps

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Josiah S on istock.com Founded in March 2009, the Oath Keepers are an anti-government far-right militia group comprising former law enforcement, first responders, and former military who pledge to defend the United States against government tyranny at all costs. Actual law enforcement looked the other way.

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Intersectionality: buzzword or social sector game-changer? 

Candid

Coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term refers to the fact that combinations—or intersections—of social identities such as race, class, and gender result in different experiences and treatment. This is because we have default images, or “ prototypes ” that we associate with specific concepts.

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Democracy in Peril: In South Africa, Will Philanthropy Back Economic Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5