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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

Hazen Foundation provided funding for CYC to engage youth and community stakeholder voices in the transition process, leading to the creation of a transition committee that consisted of three board members, three staff, and three youth representatives of CYC’s foster youth membership. The Edward W.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It now includes my organization, Lever for Change, as well as ICONIQ Impact, Lego Foundation, Yield Giving, Pivotal Ventures, W. Kellogg Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. We need to grow this group further—not to the exclusion of other types of philanthropy, but to complement it.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

Escaping this cycle requires stakeholders to discuss and reach mutual understanding about three core concepts foundational to progressive organizations. Social movements are fluid; they adapt how they mobilize everyday people as movement energy crests and falls.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

In this conversation between Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Kaytura Felix, managing director, Leadership for Better Health, at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the two leaders discuss medical racism, health justice, and what it really means for a system to support people’s health. CS: What did you do at RWJF?

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