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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. This series will explore that central question.

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How Guaranteed Income Can Support the Arts—And Ourselves

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My In Akron, more than 20 public, nonprofit, and community groups came together to form the Civic Commons team. My first thought was, ‘Here we go.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. Public schools, which serve about 40 percent of Lebanons 1.1 million students, have been particularly affected.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

F actors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and transparency offer a more comprehensive view. It’s time for the sector to unite in educating the public and funders on the importance of building capacity. What can I do? Keep your team moving forward!