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The Challenges of Seeking Healthcare as a Neurodivergent Person

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on iStock As much as 20 percent of the US population is neurodivergent, a concept that autistic disability rights advocates first developed to describe neurological diversity and move away from binary distinctions between “ normal ” and “abnormal” cognition.

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How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

Private equity—that is, investor groups that operate outside of the stock market, thus being largely shielded from public investor scrutiny—plays a leading role. trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 These purchases can have devastating impacts on the quality of healthcare.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This proactive, data-driven approach can significantly improve the quality of life for elderly individuals and reduce the burden on healthcare systems. Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development.

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How Fundraisers Can Reconcile the Competition that Exists Between Your Donors’ & Administrators’ Hero Stories

iMarketSmart

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. It might deliver healthcare, research, or education. In the donor-hero story, charity administrators are minions. The administrator’s role is only to dutifully obey donor orders. What works for this group is the administrator-hero story.[1] Risk management.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the last year, she had to visit the emergency room at the local hospital three times when she and members of her family developed severe respiratory symptoms. Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored. Elisa isn’t alone.

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Standing Up A New Grants Management Function

The NonProfit Times

Often when grant professionals come into new roles, they are responsible for standing up the new grant management function at their organization. If this includes the capacity to manage grants with a federal origin, the task can be daunting. Grant readiness is your organization’s ability to apply for, manage and report on funding.