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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is also one of several DC-area foundations profiled in a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) on “ Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People.” Philanthropy is starting to talk more about reparations. One takeaway: Traditional practices of grantmaking are insufficient.

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. Bringing children into this unequal world created another layer of stress for women who participated in the study.

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Close Achievement Gap: Helios Vice Chair On Urgency of Education Access

Fundraising Leadership

Jane Roig, vice chair of the board of directors of Helios Education Foundation, receiving the Leading Philanthropy Award at the recent Power Up conference. She was a widow in 1923 with four children under the age of 7.” She then put her children in an orphanage until she could get a job, set up the household and reunite with them.

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Upon obtaining her master’s degree in Public Policy Administration from the University of Missouri-St. In her early nonprofit roles, Rachel developed both a deep commitment to and a critique of fundraising and philanthropy across the St. She loves cooking, snuggling her two children, Peloton, and Instagram. Louis region.

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We all live in digital civil society

Philanthropy 2173

Friends telling stories over video chat to their neighbors' children to give the parents a wee break. why public policy on the digital environment - from rights to automated decision making, AI to biometrics, broadband access to zero rating - were the policy domains that matter to civil society now. Deep fakes.

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Driving Change in Housing Policies With Advocacy and Organizing

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Robust research demonstrates that high-quality housing in a thriving community is associated with improved physical and mental health, educational and developmental outcomes for children, and financial security and economic mobility for families.

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To Build Narrative Power for Reparations, We Need Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

These narratives not only evoke emotions that affect our behavior—they also help directly shape our public policy priorities. This latter process is sometimes referred to as “hegemony” or what political sociologist John Gaventa has called the “internalization of powerlessness.”