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Executive Director

Anedot

During that time, we’ve refined and optimized our processes to offer a unique and highly impactful service to those living homeless while housed. Develop and manage relationships with key donors, community contacts, nonprofit directors, and grant makers in the homeless/social service area.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, they harm people who need the support of public benefits programs, increase poverty, and have negative macroeconomic impacts. Even where work requirements do lead to increases in employment, they mostly keep people in poverty. In some cases, the share of families living in deep poverty increased.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. Impoverished individuals are treated as passive recipients of solutions, with no active role in the process. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. Notwithstanding the emergence of several funder collaboratives in recent years, such coordinated activity is still more of an exception than the rule.

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How to Advance Housing Affordability—The Ongoing Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Throughout the United States, the housing crisis is more evident than ever, indicated by record homelessness numbers and the sky-high cost of rent. Nearly 40 percent of those who experienced homelessness in 2020 were Black, and 23 percent were Latinx, far above these groups’ shares of the US population (13 and 18 percent, respectively).

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment. Furthermore, many inner-city students face a range of social and economic challenges outside of school, such as poverty, crime, and family instability, which can make it difficult for them to succeed in school.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should You Celebrate Your Nonprofit’s Anniversary?

Bloomerang

Is reminding folks you haven’t solved hunger, homelessness, or poverty a good thing? Because all the time you’re spending on anniversary activities you’re not spending on higher-yield strategies. Everybody has birthdays… ho, hum. It’s a not-to-be-missed opportunity. Opportunity for what? Is this really something to celebrate?

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