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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

Black women hold diverse and nuanced socioeconomic and political identities, and as such, our policies targeting racial and gender inequality must be flexible and adaptable. This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of 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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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Social Finance in North America.”

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. It is systemic and values based.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Trends across multiple indicators linked to SDG targets, such as maternal mortality, overdose and suicide rates, and proficiency in reading and math, suggest that the future health and well-being of American youth, women, and minority racial and ethnic groups are particularly at risk.

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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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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We have to tell the truth about that system: Inequities in health outcomes, economic opportunity, household wealth, and other determinants of position in the socio-economic hierarchy are not bugs of our capitalist economic system but its central features. Building a new narrative for social change is a complex and long-term endeavor.