Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Recently, Lake Institute paired up with the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) to learn more about American Muslims’ giving practices. But before we get into that study, some basic understanding of Muslim beliefs are paramount.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What became abundantly clear was that change from the top down—new policies, new programs, new funding—was simply unattainable in the toxic and polarized political environment that has become the new norm, inhibiting new social policies from being enacted (let alone the funding mechanisms needed to pay for them).

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

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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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice.

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Getting Attention

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It has helped clients achieve a variety of goals : advancing social policy, raising money, establishing corporate identity, promoting new business practices, and explaining complex ideas. Boosting that confidence is important, becaus e participation from your colleagues in other departments is essential to developing good messages.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity. Starting in 2010, the CEO authorized and worked closely with the organization’s COO to prioritize racial equity, both internally and in its public policy work.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Global Social Policy 14 (2): 74–277. References Brennan, D., Himmelweit, and M. The Marketisation of Care: Rationales and Consequences in Nordic and Liberal Care Regimes.” Burns, D., Folkman, J. Killett, and K. Goldstein, M.,

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, in social policy, academics and policy makers can use the rhetoric of evidence-based policy in policy deliberations to dismiss rather than resolve the complex ways that community values and research evidence interact. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

In October 2021, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), in collaboration with other organizations, surveyed 1,000 parents with low to moderate incomes about their experiences with the expanded child tax credit. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy calculated that 3.7

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Leveraging Spending Power for Social Impact The SDGs combine targets and metrics, which cities have found useful for evaluating how their spending aligns to environmental, economic, and social policies. This allows for data-driven decision-making by local governments as they deliver key services to their residents.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Marginalized communities gain power over economic and social policy only when corporate influence is diminished and white supremacy is derailed. There is no way around the reality that building power for social and racial justices means making enemies. Co-governance requires that bureaucrats cede authority.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. Specifically, policymakers do not consider Black women living in poverty when developing programs that help people purchase and retain ownership of a home.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. Baker eventually fell out of favor and left the organization, but the resistance she encountered at the organization persisted into the next decade.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Data labs and policy labs such as Gov Lab , Data Justice Lab , Washington State Institute for Public Policy, The Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab , Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy , help to stratify and assess data so that it can be used to make comparisons, determine ROI, and improve outcomes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

How can recognizing shared insecurity spur social change and create a strategy to redefine security? We could design social policies to enhance people’s security: Make housing a human right, not a commodity, so that we can live in a space instead of in a speculative asset. What would this let us create?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Recent research by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy supports such assertions, finding that a permanent expanded child tax credit “would deliver a value to society eight times the annual costs.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Community activists and nonprofit leaders sought to move the sector from providing individual services to strengthening communities by allying nonprofit organizations with similar struggles and missions to engage in policy advocacy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

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.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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