Wed.Mar 15, 2023

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Post Pandemic Nonprofit Outlook

Famcare

Like all industries, the nonprofit sector is trying to put the pandemic behind them. During and immediately after the height of the pandemic government subsidies buoyed up many nonprofits through programs like the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF), Employee Retention Credit (ERC), and Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG).

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Hunt’s Budget boosts tax relief for foster and shared lives carers and support for care leavers

Community Care

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced increased tax relief for foster and shared lives carers, improved support for care leavers and enhanced help for disabled people to enter the workplace, in his Spring Budget today. However, social care leaders have criticised the lack of funding for core services for the coming years, while the statement also did not provide further detail about public sector pay settlements for 2023-24.

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). For people involved in foresight practice, the practice of scanning, organizing and creatively interpreting “signals of change” in the ecosystem is a primary and foundational part of the work. This blog is a place where I’m doing that “out loud” and in public to both share what I’m finding, and encouraging readers to do the same.

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Make time for young carers

Social Care

"Understanding the ways in which employers, educators and government can best support young carers is hugely important." [Image copyright Carers Trust] Today is Young Carers Action Day I'm Andy McGowan, tthe Policy and Practice Manager for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers at Carers Trust , a UK charity working to transform the lives of unpaid carers.

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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Hunt’s disability plans put 1 million people at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

The Guardian

Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’ Hunt gives top 1% a pension bonus, ignores public services ‘The pain was so bad but the assessors didn’t believe me’ Up to 1 million people claiming incapacity benefits could lose hundreds of pounds a month as a result of plans outlined in the budget to push ahead with the “biggest reforms to the welfare system in a decade,” experts have said.

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Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation

Nicole Clark Consulting

Try this out and let me know how it goes for you. I was a panelist on a recent webinar, discussing community and structural interventions to support maternal health equity. During the conversation, I shared an evaluation struggle: Evaluation is used to meet funder expectations, instead of serving as a learning tool for [.] The post Try This: Move Away from Funder-Driven Evaluation appeared first on Nicole Clark Consulting.

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Meeting the Tipping Point Challenge

CAPC

A breakdown of CAPC’s third John A. Hartford Foundation Tipping Point Challenge.

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Book Review: Help for the Helper

The New Social Worker

The New Social Worker reviews the updated 2023 edition of Help for the Helper, a book by Babette Rothschild.

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Guess which child welfare “scholars” are in the group defending a “race realist” law professor beloved by Tucker Carlson

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Self-proclaimed "race realist" law professor Amy Wax having a friendly chat with election denier Tucker Carlson Prof. Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania Law School is quite a piece of work. The school’s Dean, Theodore Ruger, has written a letter urging the University to consider imposing a “major sanction” against the self-proclaimed “race realist.