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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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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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Homeless, Then Shot by Federal Police

NonProfit Quarterly

Before they were living in two campers on federal public land, the Roberts family shared an apartment in Emmett, ID, where Judy Roberts worked in a factory. Years of reporting has documented the rise of families living on public land. Bad Public Policy “[Criminalization] is bad public policy.”

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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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How Dollar Store Kudzu Consumes Local Economies—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

An example of this was profiled at NPQ in 2019, when we published a detailed study about the closure of a food co-op that had opened three years before in a Black community in Greensboro, NC. Or, what if that person doesn’t own a car and wants to avoid the time and expense of a cab, car share, or public transit? Quite a bit.

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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.”

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Cancelling Student Debt Is Necessary for Racial Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

As a result of decades of state disinvestment from public education, deregulation of the lending industry, and financialization, student debt has ballooned. Black women struggle to manage repayment. The Problem of Student Loan Debt. The US’ $1.74 trillion in student debt is nearly 8.5 times what it was in 2000.