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Silicon Valley Business Journal
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.
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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.
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