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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living?

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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

On August 28, 2024, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared parental stress a public health crisis. It is contingent on a social environment, which has the power to either help or hinder a persons developmental trajectory.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In particular, a devastating economic and institutional meltdown that began in 2019 has taken a huge toll on schools and on education in the country. Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

I’ve been doing social justice work for over 20 years now. It’s broad in the sense that it brings racial justice practitioners, artists, movement makers, educators from all over the movement who are working at the intersections of race, class, education, the environment, reproductive health, and rights, et cetera.

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How Guaranteed Income Can Support the Arts—And Ourselves

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.

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How to Overcome Philanthropy’s Charity Mindset

NonProfit Quarterly

abdiel lpez: When thinking about what needs to change to advance the just transition, we must look also at the culture and the structures that philanthropy upholds, specifically in their day-to-day programming and the way they connector notwith grantees, investees. And they write all of that in their investment policy statement, for example.

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Brave New World: What Does the Digital Age Portend for Health Justice?

NonProfit Quarterly

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health justice advocacy groups adapted their strategies to the digital realm, leveraging social media platforms, virtual events, and other online resources to raise awareness and organize their efforts.1 Telemedicine, for example, powered by digital platforms, is a transformative force in improving access.

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