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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

” The report , Grassroots, Black & Giving: How Philanthropy Can Better Support Black-led and Black-benefiting Nonprofits , is based on a survey of over 200 such organizations conducted by YBGB. Engage in broad systems analysis to better understand and address the context in which the work of Black-led nonprofits occurs.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life. Lack of access to education can make the difference between good and poor health.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.”