Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 7, 2023

This article concludes the series : Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. For decades, the United States has focused on what are called “place-based” strategies and policies to address poverty, housing access, and affordability. Studies show that secure housing is critical to reducing generational poverty.

Poverty

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. B2P has constructed or supported over 450 trail bridges in 21 countries, reaching over 1.5 million people. days per month.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the 1960s, the construction of interstate highway I-76 and state Route 59 disconnected Summit Lake from the rest of Akron. Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. The city’s Black business district was devastated.

Public and Social Policy

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AUGUST 20, 2021

This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. But this is the kind of reporting you’re likely to get back: Denise, a mother with three minor children, requested assistance with rent and utility. The best stories contain multiple news values. Give them a goal. Introduce the villain.

Ethics

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is instead an exercise in liberating the constructs of creativity from being the prerogative of the Western, masculine, or the allegedly educated, while reclaiming what rural women of India have championed for thousands of years. .”

Food

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. In 2014, six CDFIs located in regions of rural America beset by persistent poverty formed a coalition to remedy longstanding underinvestment. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

Poverty

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. Nowhere is this more evident than in the construction and decimation of the social safety net. That’s not what happened, of course.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 18, 2024

And while we’ve seen abundant investment in tools designed to assist software developers and free up time for them to focus on the more challenging parts of their jobs, there has been far less investment in technology that could assist construction workers, the service sector, teachers, nurses, or other care workers.

Curriculum and Teaching

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wainwright is the CEO of Family Life , one of Australia’s largest family services providers working with vulnerable children and their families. “If Intergenerational trauma occurs when one or more ancestors pass along unhealed trauma they experienced before having children or during pregnancy.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 14, 2025

The old system was largely constructed on the assumption of bipartisan backing in the West and guaranteed funding flows, and has shown itself to be far too brittle as a result. We all need more constructive skepticism. This means rethinking the very architecture of aid. They may be our best hope for reform. The circle has expanded.

Construction

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

The brand, which blamed its performance on the “fickle tastes of children,” also had to respond to plunging demand amidst a cultural landscape that saw its star as an outdated and sexist symbol by offering dolls in different colors and sizes. Barbie ’s story is about the newfound self-consciousness of a commodity.

Manufacturing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

35 Since One Voice’s community involvement, member–owners have become board members, and cooperatives have begun to contribute to community benefits—including a grant to a local community college for its radio station and the development of a local playground for children. In cooperative models, financial benefits are shared.

Energy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 21, 2023

In late 2021, a small Zimbabwean community-based organization, Score Against Poverty (SCORE), with help from the Canadian government, decided to test out a different approach. They were allowed to openly voice how they felt that Labola was unfair and how this affected relationships with wives and children.

Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

million children out of poverty. By early 2023, however, Governor Tim Walz was declaring , “Now is the time to go bold” and pledged to “lead the nation in ending child poverty.” The regulatory changes for construction, warehouse, and meat packing workers are also significant. But many pieces of major legislation failed.

Public and Social Policy

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The FY 23-24 budget includes a 5% raise for state workers, a three-month grocery tax holiday, $250 million for the state’s Rainy Day Fund, $300 million for the state’s pension plan, $110 million in TennCare reserves for rural hospitals facing closure, and close to $1 billion construction and maintenance of technical colleges.

Nonprofit governance and management

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

JUNE 5, 2023

The FY 23-24 budget includes a 5% raise for state workers, a three-month grocery tax holiday, $250 million for the state’s Rainy Day Fund, $300 million for the state’s pension plan, $110 million in TennCare reserves for rural hospitals facing closure, and close to $1 billion construction and maintenance of technical colleges.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Earthquakes and human-caused activities like building roads without grading or proper drainage or placing fill during construction can also generate landslides. All these issues are compounded when evacuees live in poverty, don’t have the resources to rebuild, or lack family support. Medical treatment is disrupted.

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