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Rebuilding nonprofit resilience through mergers and partnerships 

Candid

government funding in particularare facing the impacts of USAID stop-work orders and subsequent funding cancellations. government fundingwhich provided for a higher percentage of overhead costscant easily pivot to non-U.S. Nonprofits in the international development subsectorand those that have relied on U.S.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

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? However, health innovation, when narrowly defined as the application of technologies, often overlooks the broader socioeconomic contexts in which it is deployed.

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“Forever Chemicals” Are Endangering Our Collective Health

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences , “PFAS are a group of nearly 15,000 synthetic chemicals.” Olson, senior strategic director of health and food for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), there are three main factors that contribute to the dangers PFAS poses. According to Erik D.

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Encouragement for the Crazy Marketing/PR/Communications Person Who Wears Many Hats

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

For those of us who thrive on a little chaos and lots of multi-tasking, handling the marketing, public relations, and communications needs of our non-profit allows us the privilege of wearing many hats. Offer your non-profit’s office as a meeting place for a group in your community.

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Safe At Work: How To Lead During Election Season With Fairness and Civility

Fundraising Leadership

election2024 ” The mission of civility during this time applies to private companies, non-profits (that are legally mandated to be non-partisan), as well as larger public companies with an extensive employee base and perhaps a distanced hierarchy of ownership. A recent LifeStance Health survey of 1,052 U.S.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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Making Health Innovations Thrive in Africa

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Christian Seelos , Miki Sofer , Caitlin Burton & Johanna Mair According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. We see several strategies that could help overcome these barriers to executing and scaling effective health solutions.

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