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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The advisory group, in its early days, spent a lot of time on values clarification and team-building exercises. We wrestled with hard questions… “Does this policy make sense in practice? It’s so easy to practice simple social interactions. People want to be seen, it’s a metric for being valued and appreciated.

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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Renjilian holds a Masters in Social Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago and has served as the Executive Director of Community Connections for Children since 2011. Bring bagels and serve them in your new office. About the Author: Christy S. Renjilian, Executive Director, Community Connections for Children Christy S.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

That you can’t fix that, [can’t] have social policies that attend to people who are marginalized if you don’t see those people as people. They simply won’t adopt social policies. In fact, they will adopt social policies that hurt themselves in order to hurt those people. And some people say, “No.”

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

NonProfit Quarterly

This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. Having the ability and access to own a home would give me peace of mind because it would make me feel more valued as a resident of this city.”. 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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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

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

NonProfit Quarterly

There is even a political tendency at the time called Solidarism which proposes that solidarity is the solution to problems arising from the Industrial Revolution—and puts forward social policies and ideas about the role of the state. Capitalism reduces everything to its exchange value. It drives all of us.