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Disaster Recovery Requires Community Careā€”But Also Government Support

NonProfit Quarterly

Its critical for the state and federal government to show up as well. They worked with a volunteer pharmacist to ensure that people could get their emergency medications and sent volunteers to help elders and those living in senior living facilities flush their toilets. Community groupsno matter how strongcannot meet all the need.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. Johnson , which gave local governments license to fine, ticket, or arrest unhoused people. The Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jonathan T.M. Leading the nationā€™s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he wonā€™t need to be brought up to speed. These wins include requiring the U.S.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

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ā€œEducational Purposesā€: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Colleges, universities, and their medical centers are registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organizations. After decades of urban disinvestment, many urbanites celebrate these schools as ā€œanchor institutionsā€ to help drive their areaā€™s big comeback or renewal.

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Read, Listen, Learn: 13 Great Books by Women Authors for Womenā€™s History Month

Fundraising Leadership

The author, is an award-winning Medical Oncologist specializing in breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Miranda Spivack, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards , How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back.

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