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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

9 In addition, those who are diagnosed often experience more severe and disabling symptoms than those experienced by other races and ethnicities. percent of Black Americans live below the poverty line (the number is 7.7 10 Only 35.1 percent of Latinx Americans with mental illness receive treatment annuallythe US average is 46.2

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Developing Healthy Individuals “Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities thrive.”— International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

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Changemakers, Disruptors, and Protectors of Our Earth: Young Women and Girls of the Global Majority Leading Climate Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

14 In regions of Africa and South Asia, climate disasters such as floods and droughts increase poverty and food insecurity, prompting families to marry off their daughters at a young age as a survival strategy. 8 According to the Malala Fund, by 2025, “climate change will be a contributing factor in preventing at least 12.5

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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

PolicyLink was founded in 1999 with the mission of fighting poverty and advancing racial equity, which it defines in its Equity Manifesto as just and fair inclusion into a society in which all can participate, prosper, and reach their full potential. living in or near poverty.