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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. How many seasonal celebrations were deferred, and social connections interrupted or never even made?

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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Reflecting on Equity: What Does It Mean to Love ‘All’?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Doug Hattaway In a special supplement to Stanford Social Innovation Review, the policy research and advocacy organization PolicyLink issues a call to action for people interested in realizing the unfulfilled promise of our democracy as one where all can thrive. Were going to be forgotten. All of us hurt, one person offered.