NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. A universal federal program would provide more consistent support. State programscreate a patchwork of approaches.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Poverty Children Universities 94

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security?

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

The “opportunity theory,” advanced by Columbia University faculty Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin, proposed “the political economy of the United States as fundamentally sound and asserted that those on its margins needed greater opportunity.” An assumption underlying these efforts is that marginalized people simply need opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 124