15 research outputs found

    Who Provides Arts Programs in Knight Communities? An Analysis of Nonprofit Data From IRS Forms 990

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    Analyzes the role of nonprofits in providing arts and cultural programs, activities, and initiatives to the 26 communities in which the Knight Foundation makes grants

    "Here's Looking at You, Kid": Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs in Entertainment Media

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    Reviews portrayals of substance use on television, in movies and in popular music, and makes recommendations for future research in these areas. Prepared for The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

    Building Capacity in Nonprofit Organizations

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    Offers a capacity building model that is based on a review of civil society, sustainable development, and organizational management literature. Reviews effective capacity building programs sponsored or operated by foundations. Includes recommendations

    An Analysis of Private School Closings

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    We add to the small literature on private school supply by exploring exits of K-12 private schools. We find that the closure of private schools is not an infrequent event, and use national survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics to study closures of private schools. We assume that the probability of an exit is a function of excess supply of private schools over the demand, as well as the school's characteristics such as age, size, and religious affiliation. Our empirical results generally support the implications of the model. Working Paper 07-0

    An intersectionality framework for identifying relevant covariates in health equity research

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    IntroductionHealth equity research uses impact evaluations to estimate the effectiveness of new interventions that aim to mitigate health inequities. Health inequities are influenced by many experiential factors and failure of research to account for such experiential factors and their potential interactions may jeopardize findings and lead to promoted methods that may unintentionally sustain or even worsen the targeted health inequity. Thus, it is imperative that health equity impact evaluations identify and include variables related to the circumstances, conditions, and experiences of the sample being studied in analyses. In this review, we promote intersectionality as a conceptual framework for brainstorming important yet often overlooked covariates in health equity related impact evaluations.MethodsWe briefly review and define concepts and terminology relevant to health equity, then detail four domains of experiential factors that often intersect in ways that may obscure findings: Biological, Social, Environmental, and Economic.ResultsWe provide examples of the framework’s application to lupus-related research and examples of covariates used in our own health equity impact evaluations with minority patients who have lupus.DiscussionApplying an intersectionality framework during covariate selection is an important component to actualizing precision prevention. While we do not provide an exhaustive list, our aim is to provide a springboard for brainstorming meaningful covariates for health equity evaluation that may further help unveil sustainable solutions to persisting health inequities
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