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We hope you were able to join our most recent town hall, where we discussed real-life stories of incredible health benefits savings from our friends Angie Rodriguez, Director of Human Services for East Harlem Council for Human Services and Mitch Austin, Human Resources and Compliance Director for Gateway Residential Services.

Be sure to join Derreck Smith, Senior Marketing Manager of Nonstop and Erik Daley, CFA, retirement benefits expert and managing principal for the Multnomah Group on July 30th at 10AM PST for a 30 minute town hall conversation showcasing strategies to help your employees repair and strengthen their retirement benefits portfolio in this time of economic uncertainty.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services¹, only twelve (12%) percent of adults in the United States have proficient healthcare literacy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health literacy or healthcare literacy as "the degree to which an individual has a capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions."² The expenses of improperly accessed healthcare negatively impact both the individual and the overall cost of healthcare premiums, adding to expense for your organization as well.

Quick Summary

• UPDATE: As of July 3, 2020, the application deadline has been extended to August 8, 2020
• The SBA has about $125 billion in loan forgiveness funds for those that qualify
• To ease access to these funds, application restrictions were lifted and later the deadline to apply was extended. Candidates who may not have previously qualified need to review the recent updates

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New York nonprofit abandons traditional fully-insured health plan design to reduce employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and improve benefits through first-dollar coverage.

Essential Unemployment Insurance Insight for Nonprofits with Laura Achee, Enrollment Manager, UST.

We hope that you were able to join our team at Nonstop and Laura Green, HR Business Partner from Nonprofit HR for a timely conversation about mental health strategies in the workplace. If not, or if you just want to learn more about the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of your employees and how your organization can act in a way that’s organized, passionate, and will keep your valued team members thriving—we’d love to take a moment to break down a few key points of that conversation, and tell you how to find out more.

In a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a desire to support heroic healthcare and health center workers, putting themselves on the front lines of a global healthcare crisis, MassMutual has created free term life insurance with those heroic healthcare workers in mind.

Exactly 99 years ago, on May 31-June 1 of 1921, hundreds of Black Americans were brutally attacked, interned, and murdered in Tulsa, Oklahoma in what now politely gets called the "Tulsa Race Massacre." It is shameful that we have made such little progress.

If you've been looking at the current pandemic crisis and wondering why the healthcare system has become so broken, you need to read Nonstop’s new article by CEO David Sloves, published via Benefits Pro. "The Fallacy of Skin in the Game," tackles the recent history of the American healthcare system and the challenges of consumer-driven approaches to plan design, as well as potential solutions as we take a thoughtful look to re-approaching the healthcare industry. Read thr full post here: https://www.benefitspro.com/2020/05/07/the-fallacy-of-skin-in-the-game/