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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Weak social connections represent an equivalent health risk to smoking and obesity. Here are several tenets of public health and how they are playing out addressing social isolation and loneliness across the globe. Help Health Care Professionals Diagnose Loneliness Diagnosis is the first step to treatment.

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32 Rising Nonprofit Leaders Chosen for 2023 Certificate in Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Center

This unique, 10-week learning experience brings together nonprofit leaders who are new to managing people or programs in an inclusive, collaborative environment to develop the qualities and skills necessary to lead with authenticity and impact. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Certificate in Leadership Class of 2023.

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Chief Storyteller & Nonprofit Leader to Emcee 2023 Nonprofit Leadership Conference

NonProfit Leadership Center

According to Ernest Hooper, renowned storyteller and nonprofit leader in Tampa Bay, it’s collaboration and shared knowledge. Every participant walks away with renewed promise." Ernest embodies collaboration and community, and I can’t think of a better leader to facilitate and guide us through this powerful event."

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Preserving Cambodia Town: How A Refugee Community Has Organized Itself

NonProfit Quarterly

The atrocities may seem remote to some, but not to the survivors—people in our community, many of whom were children at the time and are now in their late forties or early fifties. Most critical, however, is reducing resident isolation by doing things together, connecting, and collaborating.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care. BPP provided children and youth with these essential courses and other valuable enrichment programs.

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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

It does not surprise, then, that Black neighborhoods face health disparities relative to their white neighbors, with marked differences in rates of infant mortality, asthma, gun violence, and life expectancy. Until 2019, most engaged volunteers were White and motivated by concerns with food justice.

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Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Despite significant financial investment and concerted national and local efforts to improve maternal health, disparities remain. A growing research base indicates that social context across time can powerfully influence present-day health and well-being.