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

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City. This series will explore that central question.

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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It worked: In 2023, Kenya announced it would provide monthly stipends, essential equipment, digital monitoring tools, and health insurance to me and 100,000 of my peersa huge win for Kenya, one of the most populated and influential African countries, as well as for the global effort to formally recognize CHWs.

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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

This in turn improves healthcare access and helps address social determinants of health by opening the door to referring patients to specialists, enrolling patients in assistance programs, and connecting those in need to other available resources within the community.

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Undocumented and Unprotected: How Immigration Status Amplifies Climate Vulnerability

NonProfit Quarterly

Community-based organizations and local governments are starting to recognize where such individuals may fall through the cracks and are creating policies and networks for more inclusive disaster response and recovery. At the same time, these policies siphoned resources away from their communities.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

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Rethinking Risk and Responsibility in the Western Wildfire Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Recent media coverage of several large and deadly fires, alongside the federal and state wildlands management response, have focused public concern toward wildfire risks on public lands, and in particular coniferous forested lands. How do we create social change to meet those objectives?

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How to Align Assets with Mission: Small Steps That Nonprofits Can Take

NonProfit Quarterly

Thanks to prison privatization, corporations, many of whom, like CoreCivic , are publicly listed companies, have a perverse incentive to boost their stock prices and keep prisons full by lobbying for policies like harsher policing, longer sentencing, and incarceration for non-violent crimes.