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Why Ending the Public Health Emergency Is Not Progress—And What Funders Can Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

It is estimated that, with this change, 15 million people could lose this essential healthcare coverage , bringing the most harm to people with disabilities, people of color, trans people, and poor people. Activist and author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha calls this “ The Great Forgetting.”

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

University of Mississippi professors Meagen Rosenthal and Anne Cafer explain that Black Americans are more likely to lack health insurance, a regular source of healthcare, or both. Perhaps even more concerning, of those who do not have insurance, nearly half have a chronic condition.

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Upturn In Trust For Nonprofits, Softness In The Numbers

The NonProfit Times

Asked about homelessness, poverty, healthcare, jobs/economy and housing, nonprofits had the most trust, but government was second when it came to healthcare and housing. The public has higher trust in the sector providing people with voting information than with assisting in writing/revising laws/regulations.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Similarly, the Healthcare Anchor Network , a collaborative of 75 health systems, is working to transform the economic drivers of health disparities in the United States. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Design as a Tool for Positive Change: A Conversation with Lesley-Ann Noel

NonProfit Quarterly

The laws and the way society is structured all had to change. I asked these children, who lived in a rural area and were experiencing poverty, to reflect on the world around them and then started designing interventions that would address some of the issues they were identifying.…Whether People want change to happen. “We

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Abolishing State Violence—An Excerpt

NonProfit Quarterly

12 Its demands include freedom for all imprisoned and detained people; resistance to surveillance, policing, and militarized responses to COVID-19; access to quality healthcare now and in the future; access to housing, food, and economic security; and international efforts to end US imperialism and militarism.

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How to Make the Ask of a Gift in a Will Less Scary

iMarketSmart

In one, a poverty relief charity was described as either, “Meeting the immediate needs of people,” or “Creating lasting improvements that would benefit people in the future.” UC Davis Law Review, 53 , 2397-2431. [5] Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal, 12 , 235-285, 241-242 citing to Knaplund, K. 4] James, R.