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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements. They are administratively efficient.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life. Today, we observe phenomena with much broader reach.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” Faced with unprecedented pressure to prove its loyalty to the government or perish, it chose collective preservation.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

’s governance can be attributed to combining impatience about injustice with patience about strategy—and all the while keeping a relentless focus on securing voice and power for marginalized communities. These challenges are reflected in what’s meant by use of the terms governing power and co-governance.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.