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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts after completing a study in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, a New York City charity that buys and cancels medical debt. The remaining 80% of accounts had already been farmed out to independent collectors.

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work?

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Forum One Wins 10 Vega Awards

Forum One

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. The New York-based Vilcek Foundation ’s mission is to elevate and communicate the importance of immigrants’ contributions to the arts and sciences in America by awarding annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. She grew up in Hunts Point, a South Bronx neighborhood that for decades was plagued by poverty, violence and ecological degradation.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. In June 2016 a bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives to allocate $300 million for state and local SIBs over ten years (Wallace, 2015).

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Forum One Wins 12 Davey Awards!

Forum One

The digital storytelling approach powerfully illustrates all that NRDC has accomplished—from landmark legislation to practical changes that benefit the environment and local communities every day—to inspire audiences to support its work into the future and continue to grow its impact. NTI Nuclear Security Index.

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