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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The advisory group, in its early days, spent a lot of time on values clarification and team-building exercises. We wrestled with hard questions… “Does this policy make sense in practice? It’s so easy to practice simple social interactions. People want to be seen, it’s a metric for being valued and appreciated.

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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Renjilian, Executive Director, Community Connections for Children Christy S. Renjilian holds a Masters in Social Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago and has served as the Executive Director of Community Connections for Children since 2011. CCC) is a nonprofit with a staff of 85 and a $144 million budget.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. When asked what her top motivation was in wanting to be a homeowner, she didn’t talk about investments or retirement, but rather her children. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. These accusations were never based in reality.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

It means I recognize that the divine in me is the same divine in you and that we are children of God. That you can’t fix that, [can’t] have social policies that attend to people who are marginalized if you don’t see those people as people. They simply won’t adopt social policies. Which is a radical statement.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. It is systemic and values based.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Through the One City Approach’s community convenings and resident consultations, the city government identified a set of priority development outcomes across six themes: children and young people, economy and skills, environment, homes and communities, transportation, and health and well-being. Only with federal partnership.