NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns.

Race and Ethnicity 70

Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Health Medical 70

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

Insurance 97

Insurance Law Health Healthcare 97

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 11, 2023

Having worked in numerous healthcare and health-justice spaces, I’m well aware of the importance of being able to self-identify. These datasets are then used to shape health interventions that frequently miss the mark for communities with specific experiences, norms, and traditions. I shrugged. Indian American is great, then.

Health 105

Health Race and Ethnicity Healthcare Public and Social Policy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Image Credit: Reneé Thompson on unsplash.com COVID-19 impacted the physical health of millions across the country, hitting marginalized communities the hardest. Less visible was the pandemic’s impact on behavioral health, an umbrella term for mental health, substance use disorders, and life stressors.

Health 114

Health Public and Social Policy Governance Collaborations 114

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 29, 2023

Even the American Psychological Association acknowledges the country is “facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.” Creating a world that is conducive to everyone’s mental health requires valuing and centering the leadership and experience of BIPOC communities.

Health 122

Health Culture Non-Profits Psychology 122

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Image credit: nensuria on iStock Community health centers are vitally important within a healthcare landscape where a growing number of Americans can’t access care. The Commonwealth Fund defines FQHCs as “community-based outpatient clinics that provide primary medical, dental, behavioral, and other health care services.”

Health 75

Health Healthcare Medical Insurance 75

Non Profitvote

AUGUST 25, 2023

As school dragged on in its now virtual environment, I started expanding my interests, becoming enthralled by the interconnections of democracy and health. Looking at the medical world through the lens of being a new EMT, the pandemic shone a bright light on inequities in our healthcare system.

Healthcare 74

Healthcare Medical Health Environmental 74

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The hospital cost reports are not audited financial reports, but are filed by hospitals with the federal government. In the absence of a tax exemption for charitable hospitals, certain organizations could continue to be exempted for other reasons, according to the report’s authors.

Health 59

Health Finance Governance Medical 59

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Yet the quest for health equity has been stymied. The lack of meaningful health equity progress is due to business-as-usual approaches and interventions focused on getting quick results—which are often temporary, weak, and ineffective. While urgent services are necessary, they can never advance enduring health equity and wellbeing.

Health 95

Health Public and Social Policy Leadership Collaborations 95

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Weve seen algorithms perform this way in the healthcare space, for instance. And we see that.

Nonprofit governance and management 91

Nonprofit governance and management Technology Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 91

Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Because we choose not to be under the government’s thumb by acquiescing to the 501(c)(3) status game, we are generally not permitted to apply for grant funding. Kelly Boyett from Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange Expanding access to mental health resources, counseling, and crisis intervention.

Volunteerism 55

Volunteerism Volunteerism Healthcare Agriculture 55

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 31, 2023

Outlining Key Investment Gaps in Rural America Nearly nine out of 10 of the nation’s persistent poverty counties are rural , and they face chronic underinvestment by government, philanthropy, and the private sector. Federal policy, which is often implemented through state governments, adds layers of complication.

Values 130

Values Poverty Nonprofit Administration and Development Finance 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Being an “anchor” refers to a framework for making business decisions around hiring, purchasing, and investing that consider the impact on the health of an institution’s local community. If you add “health”—listed as a separate category, which, alas, is perhaps a telling distinction—that number climbs another $211 billion.

Universities 126

Universities Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy 126

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 12, 2020

It’s really irrelevant to the decision at hand when dealing with public health issues. But that’s what nonprofits do — the hard stuff that governments, businesses and individuals can’t or won’t do themselves (this is my personal definition for what a nonprofit is, by the way).

Communication 223

Communication Health Healthcare Governance 223

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

Environmental 111

Environmental Health Poverty Governance 111

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 6, 2024

This transformational 10-week program strengthens the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Fellows report a 40% increase in their knowledge and skills after completing the program. ” Elizabeth J.

Participation and motivation 264

Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 264

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 19, 2025

So, Beautiful Solutions was, right from the beginning, designed to be learning from anywhere in the world where people were growing democratic economies and governance. RP: A big one for this moment is how to relate to government and state power. We are trying to shift the values at the heart of how we do economy and governance.

Governance 70

Governance Education Education Values 70

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Such weather events impact the health of individuals living in affected communities. When disaster strikes, many are left displaced or homeless, without transportation and access to necessary physical and mental health services, exacerbating existing health problems.

Philanthropy 111

Philanthropy Health Medical Nonprofit governance and management 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And while governments and private organizations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 To understand what is possible, we can look to the field of global health. degrees Celsius.

Finance 115

Finance Health Manufacturing Governance 115

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

May adds that Industrial Commons “is also the single-member owner of the for-profit Carolina Textile District LLC, which operates as a member-governed manufacturing network for the region.” However, the operational businesses have worker representation baked into the governance structure. The vision, however, is more extensive.

Manufacturing 114

Manufacturing Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Non-Profits 114

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2020, iF , A Foundation for Radical Possibility (then the Consumer Health Foundation) hosted a retreat with our board and staff. As an organization, we decided to take a stance in support of reparations for Black people, formally acknowledging the debt Black people are owed from our government and public institutions.

Foundations 119

Foundations Philanthropy Construction Healthcare 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 17, 2024

The relationship between AI and health, environmental sustainability, and humanitarian efforts is complex. Through irresponsible and biased models, AI has also exacerbated preexisting inequities in healthcare. Through irresponsible and biased models, AI has also exacerbated preexisting inequities in healthcare.

Race and Ethnicity 128

Race and Ethnicity Medical Health Universities 128

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Demands: Less Work, More Jobs, Enough to Live On October 4, 2023, 85,000 healthcare employees at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job for three days, kicking off the largest healthcare strike in US history and the first ever at the nonprofit health provider. This last issue has been at a crisis point in the healthcare industry.

Healthcare 126

Healthcare Production Activism Medical 126

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When I served in my first executive director position for a small community-based healthcare nonprofit that served the homeless, I still remember the first fundraising conference that I attended. Their primary mission is to combat a particular disease, disability, or group of diseases to improve and protect the patient’s health.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management 110

The Volunteer Hub

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Federal Government. The federal government has long been committed to helping organizations that provide critical services in areas such as education, health care, and the environment. State governments also offer grants for nonprofits that serve their residents.

Nonprofit governance and management 92

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Healthcare Foundations 92

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

But those are the things that we are seeing in childcare that workers need: they need higher wages, they need healthcare, they need more benefits. The government in Ohio, [for example, has] been doing HEROES pay, giving workers that work in childcare extra money, because it’s needed. That is where Shine is at right now.

Healthcare 105

Healthcare Governance Health 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a result, the North Star for both organizing and giving needs to be enhancing governing power. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), for example, has long focused on the social determinants of health, an academic model that stresses how much ill health happens before anyone gets to (or fails to get to) a doctor.

Philanthropy 139

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Health 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

Nonprofit Leadership 105

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Medical 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.”. Everything from access to prenatal care to timing the journey to the hospital requires careful planning and savvy navigation of narrow roads and complex health systems. “FLY GIRL” BY EKOW BREW/ WWW.EKOWBREW.COM. Providence St.

Medical 105

Medical Health Culture Healthcare 105

Candid

JULY 5, 2022

We had a large influx of government funding in 2020 and 2021, which we granted out in those years. Paying attention to concerns about the impact of COVID on mental health of children” . Many are also paying attention to government policies and broader economic trends, especially as they impact the social sector and employment: .

Foundations 105

Foundations Philanthropy Governance Healthcare 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Rest Is An Act of Core Health. “LIFE” BY EKOW BREW/ WWW.EKOWBREW.COM. Ginwright (North Atlantic Books, 2022). Rest Is An Act of Freedom.

Race and Ethnicity 130

Race and Ethnicity Health Public and Social Policy Culture 130

The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

Association of Healthcare AHP President and Chief Executive Officer Alice Ayres put 10 philanthropy questions in front of Bill Littlejohn, senior vice president and chief executive officer of the Sharp HealthCare Foundation. Philanthropy creates the greatest legacy in our society , and hospitals and health care are no exception.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Healthcare Health Finance 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

And then the differential impacts: how that affects women more if they’re in shelters and there’s an increase in violence, and the mental health impacts of that. We’re a society that does not think about mental health in conjunction with institutional and systemic issues very well; it tends to become very individualized and very relational.

Psychology 133

Psychology Health Activism Public and Social Policy 133

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 17, 2024

Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health. An estimated 40% of Americans have medical debt with nearly half of those owing at least $2,500. Yet, there are also reasons for caution.”

Medical 78

Medical Philanthropy Healthcare Public Policy 78

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Together, they fed Black school children free breakfasts, advocated for public safety reforms , developed universal healthcare programs, and fought sickle cell anemia , a genetic disease that is prevalent in Black communities but whose research was severely underfunded.

Philanthropy 133

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Healthcare Universities 133

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.

Public and Social Policy 123

Public and Social Policy Law Governance Nonprofits 123