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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism. “ and across the globe, @PTPASharon has a long history of intention and #entrepreneurship. “ As the founder and CEO of @PTPA, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

.” We focused on growing leaders with the capacity to reimagine and redesign the places that influence our children, our neighborhoods, and schools. A Future for Our Daughters We measure our success from the perspective of our children. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Nine others are in the process of becoming licensed. The pandemic further stressed this business model.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Given endemic market failure, the federal government must adjust to this reality. Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS.

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

” In particular, it was seeing families lose children to preventable diseases which spurred the founding of the Bulungula Incubator (BI) in 2007—not as an intervention by Réjane into the community, but to act as a catalyst for the community itself to enact and own solutions to a range of issues. How did that change happen?

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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. There is direct support provided by government agencies and foundations who are working with Adelante to promote culturally responsive information and equitable bilingual access to Latinx entrepreneurs.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Families are increasingly taking a portfolio approach that combines traditional grantmaking with values-aligned investing, advocacy strategies and political giving, social entrepreneurship, and more. How can families adjust to multi-generational leadership and governance, especially in families with a strong sense of original donor intent?