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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, in Saint Paul, MN, the historically Black Rondo neighborhood was virtually destroyed when the federal government built Interstate 94 through the community. Government intervention can create meaningful change, but as the above examples illustrate, that change can often be for the worse.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Public funding programs often include conditions that exceed the capabilities of high-poverty areas, such as requiring matching funds that these areas do not have. A different approach that centers community voice is sorely needed.

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Puerto Rico: The Critical Role of Information and the Nonprofit Sector in Disaster Living

NonProfit Quarterly

Then, we’ve been trying to compare the information given by the federal government and the one been given by the Puerto Rico government, which was usually different in terms of the amount of money. The US government and FEMA recently changed the recovery process in Puerto Rico. The wording, the categories of the information.

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Public Dollars for Public Good

NonProfit Quarterly

At the Marguerite Casey Foundation, we believe this moment provides an opening for movements to shift public dollars to support the public goods our nation so desperately needs and to ensure that our dollars, in the public sector, are used to realize our dreams. Philanthropy has had a complicated relationship with the government.

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Reshaping the Idea of Rural America: Stories from Our Communities

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. However, in America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC. This disproportionality demands systemic solutions.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

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Small Firms Are Still a Big Missed Opportunity in Development Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But when we look at philanthropy in the US and Europe, the list of private foundations that have a primary focus on SME growth is extremely small, just over a dozen. And certainly, lifting the ultra-poor out of poverty is a noble and necessary use of philanthropic dollars. There are 3.4 There are 3.4 Not philanthropy’s problem.