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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

AP Photo/Joshua A. Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. Some organizations intentionally encourage this kind of intergenerational cooperation, including CoGenerate and Generations United. Does that sound far-fetched?

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

This disparity is all the more striking considering the magnitude of challenges here, even before the stormbroadband, health care, and food deserts; intergenerational poverty born from extraction; and the ongoing opioid crisis.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

For example, grantees of the Freedom Fund, a collaborative that seeks to prevent and end modern slavery, agree to collect a few common data points, such as the numbers of people liberated from slavery and children back in school.

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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo: Jim Harrison. GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry.

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Hundreds of U.S. communities are making reparations for slavery and colonization

Fast Company Tech

In 2019, after years of petitioning by members of the Wiyot people, the Eureka City Council returned 200 acres of Tuluwat Island , a 280-acre island in Humboldt Bay where European settlers in 1860 massacred about 200 Wiyot women and children. Thats why reparations, with both land and money, are so critical to creating racial equity.

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