NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Furthermore, owning a home can meaningfully improve the household balance sheets of families of color—enabling them to use their home as collateral to secure high-quality, attractively priced financing for their businesses and unlocking a virtuous cycle of credit building. As for business ownership , the data are perhaps even more concerning.

Finance 71

Finance Culture Foundations Public and Social Policy 71

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

Even so, the fact that a second even larger mass protest was scheduled for a few days after the direct action indicates the kind of virtuous cycle that was possible in Hong Kong’s political ecology. Instead, a culture developed that when parts of the movement disagreed, they would offer and pursue alternative strategies as a response.

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Civil Society Law Medical 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Indeed, the creative process can be particularly useful in contexts of poverty and hardship, where it can be difficult for people to think beyond their immediate opportunities and constraints, and imagine alternative futures. The 2010 documentary Waste Land offers a good example.

Leadership 98

Leadership Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle perceived of the virtuous life as defined by Plato’s four cardinal virtues of being just, intelligent, courageous, and self-disciplined. The same paradigm applies to all virtues. It highlights caregiving, empathy, compassion, and relationships with others.

Ethics 111

Ethics Public and Social Policy Universities Philanthropy 111