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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Extensive research shows that public policy can shape economic outcomes. The public can demand economic policies that benefit the broader population. A key question becomes: What kind of economic policies should the public demand? These accounts grow over time, maturing when the child reaches adulthood.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Fill in the blanks: If XXX organization commits to YYY community-centric activities, then we will have an abundance of committed resources to achieve ZZZ. How do these values show up in your resource development activities? Upon obtaining her master’s degree in Public Policy Administration from the University of Missouri-St.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Pairing these network building activities with capacity building opportunities prepares our members to engage in food systems advocacy efforts, as well as creating opportunities to advocate for self-identified policy priorities on municipal, state, and national levels. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms.

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How to Coordinate a (Cheap) Successful Photo Shoot for Your Nonprofit Part I

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

People in action doing certain activities? She has a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in environmental science and policy from Drake University. - What kind of images will resonate with our target audiences? - Who should be in our photos: Clients? Volunteers?

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Or consider if the retirement money of our prestigious public universities and their medical centers, where cleaners, cafeteria staff, and medical assistants care for students and patients, was invested in one of the largest corporate landlords in the country, and this landlord doubled their rent or evicted their families.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Darity and Kirsten Mullen , “the capable and culpable party” that set and enforced policies and laws to actively build the assets of white families and destroy the assets of Black families. That remains true even if that wealth was donated to promote a public good. Foundations could follow this model.