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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

This is a question animating much of our work in East Texas, where a local family foundation ( T.L.L. Temple Foundation, 2022 The graph has a clarifying quality, disabusing any suggestion that our regions (represented by the green, blue, and orange lines) are on the right track. In rural East Texas we have a pilot model to get started.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And how can philanthropies fund it? For most US-based foundations, the answer has traditionally been to focus on confined problem areas, projects like reducing malaria incidence, improving school attendance, or increasing access to safe drinking water. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way.

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What Would an Economy That Loved Black People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the South US researcher and agricultural law expert Nathan Rosenberg has said , “If you want to understand wealth and inequality in this country, you have to understand Black land loss.” They also continue to face discrimination, and exclusion from government programs, loans, and subsidies.

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Has Your Check Arrived?

The Agitator

From the Chronicle of Philanthropy , here’s a list of America’s Top 50 donors in 2011, the amounts given and the lucky charities. Wonderfully eclectic giving — arts, social services, a rock music museum, Native Americans entrepreneurship, a science fiction museum, and neuroscience. These 50 donors gave $10.4