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ATTENTION! SfP is now officially Communally, The Antipoverty Technology Company! So please join us this week in celebrating our next chapter. Take a look through our new website, reach out to us on our LinkedIn page and take a minute to read through the anti-poverty content we will publish. Together, we can make poverty a thing of the past.

ATTENTION! SfP is now officially Communally, The Antipoverty Technology Company! So please join us this week in celebrating our next chapter. Take a look through our new website, reach out to us on our LinkedIn page and take a minute to read through the anti-poverty content we will publish. Together, we can make poverty a thing of the past.

Children In Poorest Neighborhoods Most Vulnerable To Fatal Child Abuse - they’re three times more likely to die from abuse than their wealthier counterparts.

Over the moon proud of all of the work our Ohio Benefit Bank sites have put in to bring relief to Houston! Keep up the good work!

How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know.

So proud of all the fantastic work our friends do in South Carolina!

The story of a decades-long lead-poisoning lawsuit in New Orleans illustrates how the toxin destroys black families and communities alike.

What is the link between poverty and mental illness?

Dr. Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS epidemics in Africa. When he returned to the US, he thought he'd escape brutal epidemic deaths. But he began to look more carefully at gun violence -- whose spread follows the same pattern as an infectious disease. His conclusion: We've reversed the impact of so many diseases, says Slutkin, and we can do the same with violence. A mind-flipping look at a problem that too many communities have accepted as a given.

The Brain Health of American Kids Depends On Donald Trump

Have you ever wondered where the best place to raise your children it?

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.