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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But while the shift from passive beneficiary to active customer represents increased agency, this line of thinking presupposes that the poor will remain so for the foreseeable future; the objective is simply to maximize their purchasing power at still-low income levels.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. We desperately need both mitigation and adaptation—and that means we cannot simply focus on exciting new products and technologies.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

4 Once on Prospect, I was awash in a sea of excitement and activity as over 150 residents, labor activists, students, and onlookers buzzed about, handing out food and water, playing with young children, stewarding informational tables, dancing to the music, and finishing a massive art project that immediately drew my attention.