Ambrosia Brody
Writer * Grants * Copyeditor
Ambrosia Brody has covered education, breaking, and community news and served as a staff writer at USC and healthcare editor at Belmont Publications. She is a freelance writer, grant writer, and copyeditor.
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Streamline Your CSR Efforts with Volunteer Connect – Why Summer is the Season to Step Up
As temperatures rise, so does the need for community support. The summer season presents unique challenges for some nonprofits, school meal gaps, shifts in volunteer numbers, and increased demand for youth services. For companies, these challenges provide an opportunity to step into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a meaningful way.
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Double the Impact — Do More With Our 20th Anniversary Bundle
Today’s employees want more than the traditional work perks; they want purposeful work. According to Deloitte, Gen Z and millennials say they are motivated by meaningful work, with 9 in 10 Gen Zs and millennials expressing they want to have a positive impact on their communities or learn skills that will help them drive change.
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Purpose-Driven Impact in Action: 3 Meaningful Ways to Support Communities Facing Hunger
For millions of families across the U.S., the question isn’t what to eat, it’s if they’ll eat at all. In 2024, Feeding America estimated that 47 million people faced hunger, including 1 in 5 children who didn’t have enough food to eat. Every day, adults, children, and seniors in communities large and small face daily challenges associated with hunger and food insecurity.
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Why ‘Stay-or-Pay’ Agreements Are Currently Under Fire
Stay-or-pay agreements traditionally have been a common talent acquisition and retention tool.
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The High Cost of Burnout for Employees and Employers
Organizations’ pursuit of more (output, revenue, etc.) and employers’ perceived experience of less (recognition, backing, favor) is generating increased tension. It’s perhaps not surprising then that, according to a new survey report by consulting firm Robert Half, U.S. workers are feeling more burned out.
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Ways You Can Help Employees with Disabilities Maximize Their Benefits
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that 22.5% of people with a disability were employed — the highest recorded ratio since comparable data was first collected in 2008.
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Mentoring and Reverse Mentoring: Two Sides of a Valuable Coin
With multiple generations working side by side, both literally and figuratively, addressing skill, experience, knowledge and communication gaps in the workplace has become crucial for employers who want to retain and elevate talent as well as create a more inclusive culture.
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Employee Well-Being Is Faltering: What’s the Cause?
With employee anxiety levels spiking among the American workforce due to a laundry list of stressors, including a turbulent job market, an uncertain economy, and political and social tensions, it’s not surprising employee well-being is at the top of many employers’ minds. However, most employees say their employers are missing the mark in this area despite organizational investments in additional well-being programs and resources.
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Mitigating Workers’ Groans from Hefty Student Loans
As student loan payments resume after a nearly five-year pause, 43 million Americans (1 in 6 adults) are faced with repaying a collective $1.77 trillion in loan debt. For many, this means choosing between paying off debt or saving for retirement, delaying financial milestones like buying a home, or paying for their children’s education while paying down personal loans.
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Who’s Taking Care of the Caregivers? Benefits to Address a Growing Need
From arranging transportation to scheduling doctor visits, caregivers face a myriad of challenges. According to a new surveyOpen in a new tab of 350 working caregivers conducted by Health Advocate, a Pennsylvania-based health and patient advocacy and assistance company, nearly all respondents (90%) reported spending at least 10 hours per week on caregiving tasks, and 50% indicated they spend 20 or more hours.
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Sociodemographic Disparities in Oral Cancer Screening Rates
Dental professionals play an important role in identifying oral and oropharyngeal cancer through oral cancer screenings, as early detection significantly improves patient survival rates. But not all patients are screened for oral cancer during dental visits, particularly minority and lower-income individuals, according to findings from the study, “Disparities in Oral Cancer Screening Among Dental Professionals: NHANES 2011–2016,” published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Is Unlimited PTO Losing Its Appeal as a Benefit?
Unlimited paid time off (PTO) has been an advertised perk for some employers looking to attract job seekers and retain incumbent workers. Having the freedom to take a break from the workplace, whenever the need arises, can be viewed by some workers as a differentiating benefit.
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Researchers Identify New Clinical Response to Inflammation
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) School of Dentistry have identified a third type of oral inflammatory phenotype that exhibits a delayed response to bacterial accumulation. The study, “Human Variation in Gingival Inflammation,” is available in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS.
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Surface & Panel - Q1 2022
Served as managing editor for this issue of the publication.