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Nipsey Hussle’s Vision: Community Ownership as the Antidote to Gentrification

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Steve Dubb

The late rapper Nipsey Hussle has been praised for his philanthropy, but he also cared about community economic development. His vision included the idea that, to avoid gentrification, community residents must become co-owners of developments.

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Kaiser Permanente Will Launch Technology to Help Connect Patients with Community Resources

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Karen Kahn

Kaiser Permanente will soon launch Thrive Local, a digital care coordination platform that makes it easier for its medical providers to connect patients to community-based social services.

Tagged Case Studies, Democratic Practices (Economic Justice), Health Equity, Health Justice, Nonprofit News, TechnologyLeave a comment

Uber’s IPO Indicates Extraction and Inequity Very Much a Part of Sharing Economy

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Steve Dubb

The current ride-hailing service business model is in desperate need of change.

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We Build the Wall’s Donors Want to See That Groundbreaking

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Ruth McCambridge

We Build the Wall has not yet done so, despite some otherworldly promises made earlier this year.

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The Appalling and Racialized State of Maternal Health in the US

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Ruth McCambridge

The most recent statistics on maternal mortality in the United States show that women are now more than twice as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than they were 32 years ago.

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A Compelling Use of Data in Public Health: Lead and Arsenic Poisoning in L.A.

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Steve Dubb

A terrifying study finds that children in many Latinx neighborhoods in Los Angeles face exposure to lead and arsenic. How better to tell that tale than to study baby teeth? Enter the Truth Fairy.

Tagged Case Studies, Democratic Practices (Economic Justice), Evaluation and Measurement, Nonprofit NewsLeave a comment

Calls to End Zuckerberg’s Reign over the Internet (and You) Increase in Volume

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Ruth McCambridge

Mark Zuckerberg’s role of dominance over Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have drawn calls for change, whether that means keeping him off Facebook’s board or breaking up the mega-enterprise.

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“Better Together” Fails to Put It Together

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Martin Levine

A proposed merger of city and county in and around St. Louis has been withdrawn—at least in part because it would have left political power in the hands of a group that would have less Black representation than the city itself.

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Business Model Bright Spot: Turning a Core Competence into Reliable Earned Revenue

Posted on May 10, 2019 (May 25, 2019) by Aine Creedon

This nonprofit case study of earned revenue success is full of replicable strategies and cautionary guidance. Learn how one media arts organization went from total grant dependence to 70 percent reliance on earned revenue in five years.

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Bad Nonprofit Breakups: Universities and Their Supporting Foundations

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Marian Conway

Another divorce between a foundation and the university it supports suggests this structure may have proven to be something of a risk.

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Kraft’s Rejected Donation and the Optics of Repentance

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Carole Levine

Organizations may get more benefit from saying no to tainted money than by saying yes.

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Breathing While Black: Louisiana Cancer Alley Residents Say “Enough!”

Posted on May 9, 2019 (October 28, 2019) by Erin Rubin

Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” parts of which have cancer incidence rates that reach 700 times national norms, are fighting against the petrochemical plant they say is poisoning their friends and families.

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