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Legislative Tracker for Tennessee Nonprofits - Childcare, Children, and Families

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Children and Families You Serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions.

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Putting Homeownership Preservation on Philanthropy’s Agenda

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Tangled titles disproportionately affect Black and Brown families due to inequitable access to legal services and persistent discrimination that has broken many families’ trust in the systems governing property ownership. Most often, this occurs when a parent dies without a will and their home goes automatically to multiple children.

Law 99
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Developing Responsible AI Policy For Civil Society

The NonProfit Times

The White House has proposed an AI Bill of Rights , and in March 2024, the European Parliament passed the world’s first comprehensive AI law, the Artificial Intelligence Act. Lessons From UNICEF UNICEF provides an example of such collaborative efforts, particularly in safeguarding the rights of children amid the AI revolution.

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Cinemas as Second Learning Places in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Fan Li The number of children refusing to attend school in Japan is increasing at an alarming rate. This phenomenon, known as futoko, refers to the increasing number of children who don't attend school for more than 30 days due to reasons unrelated to health or finances. Thus, they made a policy to avoid screening applicants.

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Keeping the Child at the Heart of the Circle: Supporting Native Child Welfare

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: RDNE Stock project on pexels.com For centuries, Indigenous children in the United States have endured forceful removal from their families and communities. Yet in 2023, Native American children continue to be removed from their families and extended families, their language, culture, and way of life.

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What Makes a Family? Pushing States to Expand the Definition

NonProfit Quarterly

From the abolition of chattel slavery to the ending of Jim Crow laws targeting Black families, through LGBTQ+ marriage equality to ongoing attempts to reform and/or abolish the US child welfare system —the struggle for equality, dignity, and protection under the law for families of all kinds remains very much ongoing.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.