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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

The new studies bolster the case, long made by many liberal economists and policymakers, that poor families tend to spend cash welfare payments on their most pressing needs, to the benefit of the entire household and especially children. The recent studies, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” And it worked. region and beyond.

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Are we willing to update and transform our purpose, vision, mission and values to align with what we hear from our mission stakeholders? What are your core values and guiding principles? Do your organization’s values support and amplify the development practice you seek to undertake? Donor Engagement. Advocacy + Storytelling.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The effort involved training senior executives, both women and men, on how to be mentors, as well as working with the mentees to ensure that both groups strengthened their development and valued mutual learning during the mentoring sessions. The pandemic increased caregiving demands among women, underscoring gender inequity.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Wright has set out to change environmental racism and policies that favor the gas and oil industries over the wellbeing of Black families and children. Addressing Climate Change Through Racial Equity Dr. Wright described climate change through the lens of racial equity as “a hefty fight in itself.” Smith asked.

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Reimagining Your Career and Life: How Power Up Conference Leaders Can Help You Thrive

Fundraising Leadership

Rather than trying to draw a straight line from what one did in the military to the same type of position in the civilian sector, it is important to take the time to examine one’s values and priorities, what strengths one has to bring to the workplace, what really one is passionate about and where you see yourself in three to five years.

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To Build Narrative Power for Reparations, We Need Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

Regarding the latter, this includes both the value of the land itself and the billions made off of enslaved labor; in 1860, census records listed the economic value of enslaved humans to total $3 billion , the equivalent of $109 billion today.