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Billion-Dollar Donations Lead the Year's Biggest Gifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Chronicle illustration; Getty Images Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave stock valued at $1.1 Michael Bloomberg gave $1 billion through his Bloomberg Philanthropies to Johns Hopkins University to make medical school free for most students.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. The Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.

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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

Medical debt relief programs might not be the panacea that proponents hope, despite the good intentions behind such programs. Medical debt relief has become a growing public policy priority for philanthropists and lawmakers worried about the toll on Americans’ financial, mental, and physical health.

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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And human beings judge the value of AIs work product. Yet, crucially, these feats are only possible because AI has been created by humans for particular human purposes and trained on diverse, high-quality datasets, including medical journals, market reports, and musical compositions, all of them products of human creativity and expertise.

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Uplifting Middle Tennessee: Nicole Olivia Rose’s Dedication to Nashville

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Undeterred, Nicole and her team took on the challenge of learning medical billing, coding, and negotiating medical contracts. The value of business acumen in the nonprofit sector is so often underestimated, but Nicole emphasizes its importance in creating sustainable, reliable resources for those in need.

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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. It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. In as early as the 16th century, enslaved Africans were subject to medical experimentation on US plantations.

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Help KFC Earn Its Cause Marketing Wings

Selfish Giving

The Colonel once testified before Congress against the mandatory retirement age, arguing that there is tremendous value in the wisdom of older workers. Instead, it aims to support programs that keep families together during medical treatments far from home. Cross-Generational Mentoring.

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