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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Nutrisense Inc on Pexels Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are revolutionizing diabetes management. The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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Why Are We Ignoring One-Sixth of the Nonprofit Workforce?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers, Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Meanwhile, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nonprofits employed 12.8 million people who earned $873.1

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Elizabeth Leslie

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! My office mates love food and we always have cake for birthdays. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro by filling out the form below. And this is her typical day: Before 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

When applying for benefits, families consistently come across unnecessary roadblocks—assumptions that people in poverty don’t know how to manage their own time and money or how to care for their families. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

But the dust has settled on most issues – and below you will find a recap of how the session played out relative to MNA’s policy agenda. TLDR; Many anti-nonprofit proposals this session stemmed from negative perceptions of nonprofits. Perception 1: “The tax-exempt status of nonprofits is unfair.”