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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

On August 28, 2024, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared parental stress a public health crisis. This was a notable shift, as the impact of parenting on parents and their unmet needs has largely been absent from discussions of reproductive health in the United States.

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What Michael Bloomberg's Plan to Transfer His Company to Charity Could Mean for Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Alastair Grant, PA Wire, AP Michael Bloomberg has given extensively to education and to nonprofits focused on arts and culture, the environmental, public health, and improving city governments around the world.

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Sparking Positive Change: The Power of Community-Centered Health Education

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels For Black Americans, health statistics are staggering, with dire implications. Black women are three-to-four times more likely than White women to die from pregnancy-related complications, regardless of their education or financial status.

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Promoting a Culture of Caring in Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Alison Badgett For the past two decades, the JED Foundation has led the fight to address the mental health crisis among American youth. Its story highlights the importance of addressing the cultural causes of the mental health crisis through systems change. Open access to this article is made possible by The JED Foundation

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Creating a Culture of Data-Driven Philanthropy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

The problem is that the ratios most commonly used for rapid analysis, typically focused on spending or growth, are not accurate measures of either organizational health OR social impact. But we believe that tools like this can support a culture of data driven philanthropy. (Think Wikipedia!).

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? What is dementia?

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s broad in the sense that it brings racial justice practitioners, artists, movement makers, educators from all over the movement who are working at the intersections of race, class, education, the environment, reproductive health, and rights, et cetera. Facing Race is what we call our “Big Tent” event.