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“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens

NonProfit Quarterly

Shifting from Pity to Solidarity Children are often encouraged to contribute by evoking pity, said Neugebauer (the classic example: Eat up your peasthere are starving kids in Africa.). While children are increasingly involved in school-based fundraising, this is often framed as the haves giving to the have-nots.

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

In recent years, baby bondspublicly funded trust accounts created to provide children born into low-wealth families with a guaranteed financial foundation upon reaching adulthoodhave evolved from idea to movement. The First Baby Bond Baby Addressing immediate needs alone will never break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

The money can be used for key wealth-building activities like education, homeownership, or starting a business. For instance, the GI Bill benefited nearly half of all veterans with education support in the five years after World War II, as well as low-interest home loans. This series will explore that central question.

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Bolstering collaboration to protect legal aid amid new challenges 

Candid

residents living at or below the federal poverty threshold, there are only 2.8 And finally, we’ve long been a leader of the bipartisan PSLF Coalition , the only educational debt program specifically for public service professionals. For every 10,000 U.S. paid legal aid lawyers.

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare. While 13 percent of U.S.

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Gender Equality Advocates Advance Pay Equity at State Level

NonProfit Quarterly

They take care not just of the children but also of the elderly, of our aging parents, says Yadira Snchez , executive director of Poder Latinx , an organization that has a national fellowship to develop Latinas to become civic leaders in their cities.

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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

Board member Bob Mankovsky, in justifying his vote, declared that the TIF purely puts on us the burden of giving millions of taxpayer money that should be educating our students and giving it to billionaires. The school board voted unanimously in favor of filing the complaint. Lets just call it what it is. This reduces the school share to 45.6

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