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Nonprofits as the Equalizing Force

The Nonprofit Consultant

As I searched around for a particular subject to write on, it hit me that I could not narrow it down to a single aspect of inequality that I could relate to work in the nonprofit sector. For each of these issues there is a nonprofit connection, with agencies and activists working tirelessly to right these wrongs. The list goes on.

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

Government and nonprofits are used to paying much less than corporations. Professionalism (branding, marketing, positioning) — People who market themselves as an independent professional and who operate as a small business are able to charge more. Generally, the larger the firm the higher their billing rates.

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Continuous Improvement for Nonprofits

The Nonprofit Consultant

Every operation is and will remain a collection of regularly repeated processes. I’m just finishing a project with the FREE Foundation, a Virginia non-profit that collects and refurbishes rehab mobility equipment and gifts it to uninsured and under-insured individuals in need ( www.free-foundation.org ).

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Florida Obamacare Blues

MishTalk

Florida has the aging healthcare Obamacare blues as older citizens who previously had no healthcare insurance demand more services than ever before after enrolling As a result, Florida’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, is raising exchange rates an average of 17.6 Florida does not operate its own exchange.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition.

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The Potential for Blockchain to Transform Electronic Health Records

Harvard Business

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. Today humans manually attempt to reconcile medical data among clinics, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and insurance companies. View is the idea that one provider can view the data inside another provider’s record.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. These numbers exclude the millions more who are under insured — people with high deductibles, high copays, and benefit caps that leave them very exposed if they fall seriously ill and are hospitalized.