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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Developing Healthy Individuals “Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes individuals and communities thrive.”— International Positive Psychology Association When focusing on a healthy context, there is a risk of falling into naïve holism, an ineffective mindset commonly seen in system perspectives.

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Changing the Economic Game in Rural America: Overcoming Financial Trauma

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the result is rural poverty. percent of rural residents lived below the poverty line, compared to 11.9 It supports a population of over 380,000 residents, 21 percent of whom live in poverty, 15 percent of whom are Black, and 15 percent Latinx. Taking the Next Step: Developing Businesses that Build Community Wealth.

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Building a City of the Future by Restoring Its Past: A Story from Black Memphis

NonProfit Quarterly

King was having a hard time convincing his friends, supporters, and funders about the merits of having a multiracial movement around poverty. This is basic psychology. SD: At NPQ , we have long been interested in governance—how community groups make democratic decisions—and management, how you implement them.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B.