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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The process provided a structure for people from all positional levels across a complex, multi-agency, state government system to share knowledge and experiences in a way that helped them navigate state bureaucracy. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States engaged in an innovative policy experiment: for one year, the federal government expanded the existing child tax credit—making it available to families with little or no earnings, increasing the credit amount, and providing monthly payments instead of an annual payment at tax time.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

However, state, county, and city governments are inconsistently skilled at developing local solutions. Taxpayers should expect governments to steward resources responsibly and in a way that maximizes benefit to all citizens. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

2012) and demonstrate the failure of government regulations to rein in abuses (Coskun 2022; Silver-Greenberg and Gebeloff 2021). ESOPs also provide workers with important governance rights. Using a tax credit policy also avoids the need to establish a new government agency to administer the policy (Howard 2002).

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. Faced with unprecedented pressure to prove its loyalty to the government or perish, it chose collective preservation.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

While the title of the book might belie the scope of inquiry, Dunning makes the case that using nonprofits as a “tool for addressing urban problems” has led to a form of “urban governance” that uses private organizations to fulfill public, democratic rights. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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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.