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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

percent of people in the United States were poor or low-income (earning between poverty-line income and twice that amount) in 2018. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multigenerational households typically have more income earners than single families, and by combining the income of working family members and the social security or pensions of retired ones, Americans living in multigenerational households have lower levels of poverty. While 13 percent of U.S. It s estimated that 2.6

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. 10 Only 35.1

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

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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Nonprofits and Movements: How Do the Two Relate?

NonProfit Quarterly

A law professor at Seattle University , advocate for queer and trans liberation, and long-time participant in movements for racial and economic justice, Spade spoke on payment and movement work at a virtual forum organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. What does he mean by “attack and steal”?

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How to write a Strong Nonprofit Mission Statement [Template + Examples]

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Watts of Love: Watts of Love is a global solar lighting nonprofit bringing people the power to raise themselves out of the darkness of poverty. Kiva : To connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Oxfam : To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice. TED : Ideas worth spreading.

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We, the Nonprofit Institutions: Transformation for Liberation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Nonprofits will need to build from a past rooted in charity and move toward a model of liberation—a future where our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions are structured so all people can thrive. To play their part, many of these institutions will need to embrace their own transformation. Still, it is necessary.