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Non-Profit Organizations With Impact Nonprofits with Impact getty I learned a lot about the Job Sphere during my time in the not-for-profit sector (though I didn’t call it that at the time). Let’s start with what we were doing. By the IRS’s definition, as employees of 501c3 organizations, what we were doing was “good” for the people we served, as described in our mission statement. In reality, I saw a lot of useless efforts: some of what we did didn’t meet those people’s needs and, worse, some caused harm due to how we did it. I was hired to do a needs assessment of local youth centers in Palestine that a major global funder was considering as grant recipients. The funding came with a requirement to meet a 50/50 gender mix for participants in the centers’ programs within one year. There were a few brave families in this conservative community who started sending their daughters to one of the centers after having gotten over concerns of physical safety, philosophical differences, an...

short-field scoring drives, big momentum changes via big and dramatic plays. All of this allows an offense that struggles to do enough to win. This is a clone of Whittingham’s success over his tenure. And why not? Sitake, Jay Hill, Gary Andersen and Chad Kauha’aha’a all worked for Whittingham. We’ve learned that QB Jake Retzlaff is making better decisions, is capable of elite throws (TD pass to Chase Roberts), and is a far better quarterback than he was in Week 1 and 2 of this season. We learned BYU’s defense is top 25 and capable of bending but not breaking in the red zone — this has been a consistent feature of this Hill defense this season. We also learned that this team has great chemistry, players are trusting coaches and each other. That’s a recipe for success. BYU’s fortunes at Baylor this weekend will hinge on avoiding turnovers while getting some takeaways. If this happens, I’d expect BYU to go 5-0. Prediction: BYU 24, Baylor 21 Cougar tales BYU’s 38-9 upset of No. 13 Ka...

Profits Over Patient Care Is Bad Medicine Support unbiased journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Health care in Connecticut is facing a challenge from the growing emergence of for-profit private equity firms owning hospitals and operating health care networks in the U.S. The problem is that these facilities are being used solely to make money and then discarded when no more profit can be had. As a doctor and state senator, I understand that this is a prescription for bad medicine. Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., a private equity organization based in California that owns 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient medical centers, years ago bought Rockville General Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital, Waterbury Hospital, and Eastern Connecticut Health Network. These hospitals and patient care networks are financially struggling while Prospect cuts funding for needed services to make profits. Also relevant is that Prospect made huge profits while its h...

Xanax, Percocet, Adderall. It will be a very massive high that is very short. And that person, they're betting if they survive, will come back again and again and again to buy more. Bill Whitaker and Anne Milgram Bill Whitaker and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram 60 Minutes Three years ago, Anne Milgram – a former attorney general of New Jersey – took over the Drug Enforcement Administration. Since then fentanyl has claimed more than 200,000 American lives, although deaths appear to be leveling off. Anne Milgram: Fentanyl is impacting every part of the United States. It's impacting our communities. It's impacting our kids. It's impacting our economy. One of the things that I've learned over the last few years that really stays with me is every single week we lose 22 teens between the ages of 14 and 18. Bill Whitaker: Every week. Anne Milgram: Every single week we're basically losing a high school class somewhere in America. She started putting pictures of pe...

Young Baby Boomers Are Actually Classified As ‘Generation Jones’ — That May Be Why 47% Don’t Relate To Their Stereotype When people think of baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, most people immediately think of the stereotypes attached to them. People between the ages of 59-78 are seen as the less progressive generation compared to others, especially millennials and Gen Zers. However, with baby boomers encompassing a large range of people, it seems people born during the latter part of the generation don't quite relate to some of the traits associated with traditional baby boomers. A generational trends expert named Daniel Levine told Newsweek that younger baby boomers have "very different" experiences to older baby boomers. Levine explained that many young baby boomers instead relate to Generation Jones, especially when it comes to their identities. Generation Jones baby boomers Inside Creative House | Shutterstock RELATED: Young People Are Conf...

The IPhone Generation Comes Of Age Source: Christopher Campbell Unsplash Recently I sat across from a 19-year-old patient, listening to him recount his myriad symptoms. They included anxiety, racing thoughts, sweaty palms, “fear about everything” and waking up every morning with anxiety in his stomach. He described a constant dread of something terrible happening and engaged in a lot of “catastrophizing.” Hard not to diagnose an anxiety disorder, right? However, he originally came to see me for ADHD. He had been convinced by another mental health provider that he had an attention deficit and was prescribed a stimulant, Adderall. He was here for a second opinion, as he was leery of medication. I did a little more investigation and some further testing. Adrian, not his real name, was brilliant. He was in the gifted classes in high school and had a GPA of 4.28. He wanted to pursue medicine or even become a pilot. But after high school he stalled, and currently was working as a host at ...