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How cross-sector collaboration can create lasting change 

Candid

The challenges facing our communities, whether in workforce development, health care, or social services, are too big for any one sector to solve alone. Government has the scale and policy tools to make change sustainable. Businesses have resources and influence. Nonprofits have deep community ties and expertise.

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Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

What became abundantly clear was that change from the top down—new policies, new programs, new funding—was simply unattainable in the toxic and polarized political environment that has become the new norm, inhibiting new social policies from being enacted (let alone the funding mechanisms needed to pay for them).

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The Economic Case against 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.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted. The pandemic also reinforced generations-old racial inequities and cracks in our social systems. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy calculated that 3.7 Assessing the Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is not the first sector to grapple with measurement—fields like health care, genetic research, and climate change share similar complications: highly differentiated participants, infinite combinations of interventions, complex outcomes, and lots of exogenous variables. Health Care: Patient Registries.

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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Address “the direct needs of Black communities by focusing on issues related to poverty and economic security,” including health, financial literacy and economic wellness, food insecurity, workforce development, education and youth development (11).