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  • The Importance of Gender Diversity in Historical Research

    Futurity Jan 4, 2023

    Researchers are using big data to determine the potential impact of demographic diversity on new knowledge in the field of history. Diverse teams are often associated with rapid discovery, yet…

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  • What Activities Can Help Aging Communities Battle Dementia

    The Conversation Jan 3, 2023

    aging/elderly, mental health, public health

    Dancing requires physical, social and cognitive engagement and, as a result, it may bolster a wide network of brain regions.

    Read the full article at: theconversation.com

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  • Poor Public Policy Threatens Public Health

    YES! Magazine Jan 3, 2023

    One evening last September, Gavin Yamey, professor of global health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, dined indoors and tweeted a selfie of himself and his two table mates—Chris Beyrer,…

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    Family Homelessness Insights from the 2022 AHAR

    Ending Homelessness Jan 3, 2023

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 for 2022 on December 19. This report documents the number and characteristics of those…

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  • RSV Treatments for Young Children are Lacking, but the Record 2022 Cold and Flu Season Highlights the Urgency for Vaccines

    The Conversation Jan 3, 2023

    For many parents, respiratory syncytial virus – or RSV – which has been causing record numbers of hospitalizations of children during the fall of 2022, may sound like a relatively…

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    Year in Review for Misophonia: Scientific Philanthropy’s Unique Ability to Advance a Field

    Milken Institute Jan 3, 2023

    “Overnight successes” take the world by storm, usually in the form of chart-topping hits or movies, but behind the successes are years – or even decades – of hard work.…

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  • Employers Need to Acknowledge Long COVID

    Bloomberg Jan 2, 2023

    Forget the work-from-home revolution or quiet quitting: The Covid-19 pandemic’s biggest impact on the US labor market will be as a mass disability event. It’s a shock that the economy is…

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  • Improving Gender Equity in Community College Transfers

    Higher Education News Jan 2, 2023

    Transfer student enrollment plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past two years, the rate of college transfers fell by 13.5% — or more than twice the decline of non-transfer…

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  • Lack of Affordable Housing Harms Natural Disaster Victims

    Grist Jan 2, 2023

    When Hurricane Ian hit Central Florida last fall, Milly Santiago already knew what it was like to lose everything to a hurricane, to leave your home, to start over. For…

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  • An Associate Board Can Help Your Nonprofit Engage Gen Z

    Blue Avocado Jan 1, 2023

    Millennials and Gen Z make up over half the US population, but only account for 16% of contributions to total charitable giving. At the same time, almost two-thirds of that…

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  • Are Colleges Considered Nonprofits? The Answer Is Complicated

    Higher Education News Jan 1, 2023

    Earlier this month, Grand Canyon University, a Christian institution headquartered in Arizona with a large online footprint, lost a legal battle it was waging against the U.S. Department of Education.…

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  • Building Generational Wealth to End Child Poverty

    The 74 Jan 1, 2023

    The U.S. Census Bureau in October reported the good news that child poverty had dropped nationally, over the course of 12 years, from 18.2% in 2009 to 5.2% — a…

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