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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Our children and their families suffer the impact of generational trauma just as much as their beneficiaries do. Wraparound support: This includes adult education, leadership development, education programs, nutritional education, and mental health assistance. At Adelante Mujeres, the staff reflects the community served.

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What’s Love Got to Do With It? Returning Philanthropy to Its Root

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This helped catalyze the early movement for equal educational opportunities for Black children, the landmark Supreme Court victory in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and the larger Civil Rights movement. aims to shift resources and innovation in the education system closer to the communities the system serves.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s less clear when you clock in for Save the Children that you’re engaged in that kind of transaction. The Chicago Teachers Union, UCLA, and SEIU locals have all used this strategy to win immigration legal defense funds, to win support for homeless children, to win support for better climate policies through “the first climate strike.”