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The Social Impact Journal

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How To Build Strong Nonprofit Collaborations

Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in addressing complex societal challenges and driving positive change. Find out the 5 steps nonprofits must take to ensure strong and successful collaborations.

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Silicon Valley Could Be The Answer For California’s Prisons

Most ex-prisoners find themselves leaving incarceration less employable than before they went in. They’ve been out of the workforce a long time and many lack the skills, experience or confidence to enter higher quality jobs. On top of all that is the stigma attached to being an ex-con.

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How One Inmate Learned To Read And Escape Gang Culture

Gang membership within prisons has also been increasing over the last few years. Even those that manage to keep out of the gang scene on the outside find themselves under intense recruitment pressure once they’re in the prison system.

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Courts Can Do More Than Just Administer Jail Sentences

The Californian prison system is failing its mentally-ill and drug-addicted inmates, and as a result they keep coming back. There are now ten times as many mentally-ill individuals in jails and state prisons than there are in state mental hospitals. Over half of all jail and prison inmates are there for crimes committed while using either drugs or alcohol. Many receive little to no treatment during their time in prison.

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