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Investing in Creativity as Social Infrastructure

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This is apparent in families divided by online conspiracies, in children's struggles with social media-driven anxiety, in neighborhoods where local businesses struggle while corporate profits soar, and in the easy stereotypes many people reach for about urban elites or rural flyover country that mask our shared humanity.

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Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better

Candid

It also hit manufactured housing communities, home to many in the tourism and service industries that drive the states economy. Photo credit: Save the Children The post Lessons from the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: What philanthropy can do better appeared first on Candid insights.

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Why the Marguerite Casey Foundation is leveraging its endowment

Candid

Where everybody sleeps in a safe and decent home and has access to the care they need for their children, elders, and themselves. Consider 80-year-old grandma Lynn McFarland, arrested and carried out of a Tennessee state senate hearing room defending childrens rights to an education.

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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. It s estimated that 2.6

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Beyond that, Tech Matters is working with Child Helpline International (the association of the worlds child helplines) to bring together data from many countries (excluding personal information) to gain deeper insights about the challenges faced by children. Nexleaf Analytics is already deploying shared data infrastructure for health systems.

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The Next Generation of Mutualism

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Hemstreet went on to work with local cooperatives, civic groups, manufacturers, nonprofits, and the local Rotary Clubthe other mutualists in her areato launch Morgantons Industrial Commons, a nonprofit economic-development project that created the Carolina Textile District and four additional community-owned organizations. million children.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizations providing vital services to disabled individuals, immigrant communities, vulnerable children, and so on, have been forced to scale back operations. The impact is devastating. ROC USAs story demonstrates how an enterprise capital approach can be used to launch and scale a national organization.