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How Much Is Philanthropy Spending Toward a More Perfect Union? 

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

This and other questions start to get answers in new projects that map a growing movement to strengthen democracy, close divides, build civic health, and more. Takiyah McCathern, an assistant principal at a high-poverty middle school in Wilkes County, N.C., raises money to pay for medical physicals required for students to play sports.

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

The American Red Cross has spent and distributed all funds designated for Haiti relief on shelter, emergency relief, health, cholera prevention, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and disaster preparedness,” the statement continued. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.

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On the First-Ever India Giving Day, the Highest-Earning Ethnic Group in the U.S. Gets a Chance to Step Up and Help Their Homeland

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

India’s first giving day, March 2, will raise money to improve education, health care, and gender equality and meet other important needs in a country with nearly 230 million people living in poverty.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis. CDP encourages giving grants locally as much as possible.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

The growing popularity among consumers who use them as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. The growing popularity [of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)]as a lifestyle tool, not to manage diabetes, is exacerbating existing health inequities. Yet, for many, CGMs remain out of reach.

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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted.

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