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How Communities Around the World Are Connecting Social Isolation and Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They can recognize patients may be at risk of social isolation, yet their role is often limited to filling a patient’s medical prescription. For example, in Brisbane, the intern manager of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia attached friendly handwritten notes to prescriptions delivered to isolated people during the Covid pandemic.

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2022 Nonprofit Leadership Conference Breakout Speakers & Sessions

NonProfit Leadership Center

The past few years have required nonprofit professionals to dig deep, think differently and work together to support communities. At the 2022 Nonprofit Leadership Conference on December 1 , presented by Bank of America, you’ll reignite your calling to nonprofit work and come together with peers and partners to chart the path forward.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Recruiting a cohort is tricky. For these reasons, before recruiting a cohort, we seek to identify and survey those nearby who shut their childcare businesses to learn why they closed and what support might have helped them stay open. That only made the profit/loss calculation for childcare operators tighter.

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Organizing a Community Around Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. Meanwhile, the answer to our own vigorous recruitment efforts is too often no. Another local leader is Danielle Guerin , who founded and leads a nonprofit called the Soul Food Project.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In some cases, this is a matter of tokenism: the recruitment of a member of an underrepresented group to gain an advantage (such as a positive public perception) for the organization, without any real organizational commitment to diversity, justice, equity, or inclusion.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Nonprofits focused on diverse talent acquisition in 2022, survey finds. nonprofits (79 percent) plan to prioritize talent acquisition in 2022, up from 59 percent in 2020, a report from human resources firm Nonprofit HR finds. PCORI announces medical research grants totaling $49.5 December 9, 2021. Nearly eight in ten U.S.

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Treating Homelessness, One Foot at A Time

NonProfit Quarterly

Cecilia Ibeabuchi, the newly appointed nurse manager for the facility, came to see him. Ibeabuchi returned to her supervisor at Boston Health Care for the Homeless, the nonprofit service provider for which Ibeabuchi has worked for over two decades, and pitched a new idea: a foot clinic run out of the shelter.