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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The First Baby Bond Baby Addressing immediate needs alone will never break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Balancing Immediate Needs and Long-Term Solutions Baby bonds highlight a fundamental tension in social policy: addressing immediate needs versus investing in long-term solutions.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

First, there is existential insecurity, a fact of human experience, a kind of beautiful insecurity that comes with being a vulnerable being, an entity that can be wounded physically or psychologically, that is aware of its mortality. Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. AT: You invented a great word, “insecuritized.”