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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. 33 Failures in Racial and Ethnic Representation The potential AI bridges noted above, of course, can only work as well as they are designed. 10 Only 35.1

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The Double-Edged Sword of Health Innovations: Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Equity in Nigeria

NonProfit Quarterly

Subsidies or innovative financing models could also make these technologies more accessible to underserved groups, thus promoting fairness in healthcare outcomes and improving precision medicine for all. 32 (May 2017); and Reem Hafez, Nigeria Health Financing System (Washington, DC: World Bank Group, 2018). Davies Adeloye et al.,

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Protecting Nonprofits That Protect Us During Crises—and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

To that end, the Nonprofit Finance Fund conducted its ninth national State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey in the first quarter of 2022 to ask nonprofits about how they were faring and their resource needs during this once-in-a-generation moment. If we want nonprofits to support us in the next crisis, they must have sufficient resources.

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Closing the Middle Skills Gap in Postsecondary Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They often combine “hard” skills with “softer” (or “ more durable ”) skills, like how to apply for a job, manage finances, and communicate well with colleagues. These programs differ, but they share common characteristics. Many are “sectoral,” focused on specific high-growth industries.

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Nonprofit Program at University of Tampa Demonstrates Significant Impact on First 15 Years of Graduates

NonProfit Leadership Center

The Program increases knowledge Program graduates report an increase in nonprofit-specific knowledge as a primary benefit of the program, citing the largest knowledge increases in marketing and finance. Interviewees represented a diverse mix of graduates across gender, race and ethnicity, graduation year, and current job title.

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Some Nonprofit Workers Still In Poverty, Struggling Financially

The NonProfit Times

Among the nine largest industry sectors, rates of financial hardship for nonprofit employees varied from 16% in both the healthcare and the finance and insurance industry sectors to 42% in retail trade. Most industry sectors had fewer than 400,000 nonprofit employees.

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A Framework for Business Action on Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors.