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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 the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Although this concentration has had profound local economic and cultural implications, various government agencies have justified it by saying that it is necessary for security reasons or that it brings in national economic support in exchange for hosting the military facilities. percent of the country’s total land area.

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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What little optimism remains to tackle such complex challenges is mostly placed in supranational schemes, such as the COP climate change conferences, or transformational national policy, such as the Green New Deal in the US. ” Scaling up social innovation takes time, but there are also varying ways it can be done.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the realm of social change, community-based leaders are skilled at influencing and using momentum to advance local solutions but often lack all the financial resources they need to push those solutions to their full potential. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

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Teachers Unions Take on Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. This is particularly important in social impact, where we need evidence to make decisions related to policy, funding, and programs, so we can solve intractable problems. million studies.