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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Policy bodies like the National Governor’s Association are calling for more tailored mental health planning. Only 10 percent of organizations reported community engagement as a core activity of their policy support strategies. Current mental health policymaking tends to be insufficiently sensitive to these differences.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today?

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. The social sector has figured out how to do the first one well. They also draw from public reference datasets, such as the Human Genome Diversity Project , HapMap , and the 1000 Genomes Project. By Jason Saul.

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Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the top down. By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana. In Education. We see the same thing in organizations focused on educational attainment.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One impactful innovation in building political power has been integrated voter engagement (IVE), a strategy in which grassroots organizing groups combine their on-going, multi-year policy campaigns with cyclical, high-intensity electoral campaigns. Building a new narrative for social change is a complex and long-term endeavor.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

Ford School of Public Policy and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March and June of this year, examined monthly surveys submitted by more than 20,000 parents receiving the expanded benefit. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.