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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Municipal ID programs like Chicago’s CityKey learned from early failures of a similar effort in New York City that ran the danger of handing the Federal Government a list of undocumented immigrants, in part thanks to NYC’s active communication of “lessons learned.” Create synapses for within-city learning.

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Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The retailer Publix and the food company King Arthur Baking Company are both owned by ESOPs. The clothing manufacturer and retailer Patagonia is now controlled by a PPT, while Newman’s Own is foundation-owned. At the same time, we are seeing an increase in activity in the space from more conventional and surprising players.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This step, as described in a letter to the US Secretary of Education signed by hundreds of nonprofit organizations and scholars, is essential for nonprofit planning and policymaking, and would make nonprofits and foundations as visible as the manufacturing or retail sectors in federal statistical publications.

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Nonprofits regained nearly 81,000 jobs in March, but still face a long road to full recovery

Candid

Reprinted from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. What is more, while many of the job gains accrued to the leisure and hospitality and retail trade sectors, a significant number of these added jobs were seen in the education field—a key area of nonprofit activity. However, 4.9