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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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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

Black women hold diverse and nuanced socioeconomic and political identities, and as such, our policies targeting racial and gender inequality must be flexible and adaptable. This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Social Finance in North America.”

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

How is suffering at the hand of market forces a ubiquitous but uneven phenomenon? If there’s a downturn in the market, you’re going to be destitute instead of finally being able to take a break and enjoy the last years of your life. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is not the first sector to grapple with measurement—fields like health care, genetic research, and climate change share similar complications: highly differentiated participants, infinite combinations of interventions, complex outcomes, and lots of exogenous variables. Health Care: Patient Registries.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sarah Cusworth Walker Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. And it is well known that communities of color experience less access to mental health services than white communities despite similar levels of need.

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