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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Suboptimal” early childhood development is seen as contributing to poverty in communities. Yet, a recent literature survey by Mezzenzana and four other colleagues notes how the Nurturing Care Framework largely excludes insights and evidence from anthropology, cultural psychology, and ethnography.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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How to Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation with Marshall Ganz

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures.

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