Nonprofits Insurance Alliance
During the insurance crisis of the 1980s, for-profit insurance companies dictated the kinds of social services insurance covered, resulting in the cancellation or nonrenewal of vital nonprofit programs. Since then, Pamela Davis has changed the insurance industry.
It took more than a decade for former U.C. Berkeley grad student Pamela Davis to fully prove her public policy thesis that a nonprofit is better suited to insure other nonprofit groups than a conventional insurance company, but she’s proven it.
How Pamela Davis’ graduate thesis became the work of a lifetime via scanned PDF.
Blue Avocado Recap: March 2026
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From the Claims Files: Assault by an Employee
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Blue Avocado Recap: February 2026
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