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  • This Grantmaking Pyramid Strategy Ensures That Nonprofits Won't Topple

    Traditional models of nonprofit funding, as well as pressure to limit overhead spending, have created an unsustainable system in which many organizations with otherwise great potential drown. Like private companies, nonprofits need to invest in their teams, offices, and research and development, "while putting aside some cash so they don’t live and die by the next grant cycle." The Ford Foundation is changing the ineffective result-driven method of funding nonprofits through its BUILD Program, which allows for better focus on organizational resilience and sustainability.

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  • The Battle to Get Gender Identity Into Your Health Records

    When admitted to see a doctor, legal sex is typically documented, but gender identity can oftentimes be overlooked. Realizing this gap in identifying potential health factors, a software developer began implementing workplace talks to change this dialogue as well as change the code used in medical records.

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  • Pennsylvania's top court just made it way harder to sentence kids to life in prison

    To sentence a minor to life in prison without parole, prosecutors in Pennsylvania must now prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the minor is incapable of rehabilitation. The state supreme court ruling is meant to recognize most children’s impulsivity and their ability to change. The ruling is a significant step in Pennsylvania, which is home to the largest population of juvenile lifers in the nation.

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  • AI Is a Game-Changer in the Fight Against Hunger and Poverty. Here's Why

    Beyond its common application as a predictor of consumer purchasing behavior, AI can be utilized to tackle poverty issues, improve agricultural efficiency, and increase access to information for otherwise disconnected populations. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are putting global satellite photographs into a complex algorithm to gauge economic activity.

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  • Rural Indian girls get discrimination-fighting tool: soccer

    Using a daily soccer practice as a structure, a nonprofit in a remote village in India is teaching girls about gender equality and health and life skills.

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  • Increasing Voter Turnout for 2018 and Beyond

    Voter turnout in the United States is far below that in most democracies. States and cities are trying a variety of ways to increase turnout, with mixed success. Eight states and Washington, D.C., are moving to automatic voter registration, for example, which is commonplace in nearly every other advanced democracy, and 32 states are debating instituting or expanding it. But not all registered voters are actually casting ballots.

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  • How sexual assistants are helping disabled Czechs fulfil their ‘right to sex'

    An organization in the Czech Republic has hired "sexual assistants to help disabled Czechs explore their sexuality and satisfy their sexual needs" as part of an initiative to decrease the stigma around people with disabilities and the topic of sexuality. The initiative has received some community pushback but has gained support from the government’s Interior Ministry – and in other Western countries, some governments have gone so far as to also offer financial support.

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  • Pilot program to help young women run for political office

    After calling roll at an all-male city council meeting in Bloomington, Indiana, city clerk Regina Moore recruited a group of women to run for office with the Democratic Women's Caucus in 1999. In 2017, she worked with a national organization called Rise to Run to start the recruitment pipeline younger by targeting high school and college-aged women to be more politically engaged.

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  • No Matter What Washington Does, One Nonprofit Is Closing the Digital Divide

    With no alternative, some community college students in Talihina, Oklahoma sit in the parking lot of the local hospital at night, logging on to the internet network to complete research papers, oftentimes on smartphones. With Obama-era broadband infrastructure improvement plans now uncertain, one nonprofit is getting "out of the government's umbrella" and working to ensure the goal of connecting 350,000 people nationwide by 2020 is still met. By both building infrastructure and making it more affordable, ConnectHome Nation seeks to answer, "What could they become ... if they just had an equal shot?"

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  • Oklahoma City-Based International Development NGO Focuses On Women

    In many rural villages in Northern India and Nepal, long-standing cultural norms have relegated women to subordinate positions in marriage and minimal educational opportunities, stifling the social, agricultural and economic development of entire communities. But with the NGO World Neighbors' work to increase female literacy and help initiate locally-controlled savings and credit groups, these areas' female residents have become a more empowered component of local development and progressive change.

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