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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The program now also offers services and support such as grocery cards, free medical care and transportation, and training programs for economic independence. The pandemic increased caregiving demands among women, underscoring gender inequity. Currently, this program benefits more than 700 caregivers and their families in the municipality.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And over the past decade, public policy—by way of the Lei de Cotas (the “Quotas Law”), which establishes university quotas for Black and Indigenous students and people who studied in public schools—has made higher education more accessible to racialized and poor people.

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Why Voting Rights Should Matter to Nonprofits

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

I was slightly scared, but I stepped up to assume my responsibility as a productive member of a civilized society. Fair voting rights mean our clients have access to making decisions for themselves medically, financially, and personally. You can’t do public policy work in a silo. Collaborate!

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

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It’s Not Just You: Bernie Sanders Makes the Case for Passionate Movements

NonProfit Quarterly

As public policy has done less and less to mitigate the suffering of millions, faith in the government has declined. Movements need to know their enemy and counter efforts to exclude people from civil society by creating inclusive demands. Healthcare, education, and housing have all become unaffordable.

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Preparing for a Second Trump Term by Learning from Hungary’s Playbook

NonProfit Quarterly

Orbns policies have also extended to academic institutions, as seen in the passage of Lex CEU in 2017, which forced CEU one of two universities in the country that offers a masters program in gender studiesto leave the country and relocate to Austria. Hungarian police have also targeted safe spaces for the LGBTQ+ community.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

45 Additionally, worker cooperatives, once marginal in the world of public policy, have since 2018 won an impressive string of legislative victories at both the federal and state level. 46 The path beyond the current status quo will be paved with brave commitments to democratic and distributive models at every level of civil society.