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Why Do Wheelchair Repairs Take So Long?

NonProfit Quarterly

The group is documenting these experiences in the hope of making legislative change, similar to a law passed in Colorado in 2022. The median cost of repairing a wheelchair, as reported by Harvard Health Publishing , is $150, often an out-of-pocket expense. Another is the red tape of insurance.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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What Did California Miss with Its Recent Slashing of a Key Solar Incentive?

NonProfit Quarterly

Second, California’s energy laws and business models are rooted in injustice. These system-wide cost calculations and optimization models exclude environmental, health, social values, and damages owed due to past and ongoing racial inequities. Regulators also use this framing to the exclusion of other societal values—including justice.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Health & Beauty. The company distributes fish and donates to health organizations worldwide. Online Stores by Nonprofits. 1) ACLU Store :: shop.aclu.org.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The IRS is currently completing its rollout of the new law. Even with augmentation, a sector that accounts for over 10 percent of the nation’s private employment and provides more jobs than the manufacturing industry shouldn’t have to rely solely on a network of volunteers for access to basic summary data.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As I’ve written about elsewhere , the single-family, two-generation patterns of real estate occupancy were heavily promoted by the secondary beneficiaries of single-family-housing in the early 20th century: real estate and home mortgage brokers, automobile tire manufactures and oil companies.

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New Rules for Discounted Drug Program

BDO

The 340B program was initially enacted into law in 1992 as a part of the Public Health Service Act.