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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

Collaborative. After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office. Empowering.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. To mobilize the full power and potential of philanthropy requires more effective collaboration and coordination among foundations.

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Fighting for Cleaner Air in East Boston

NonProfit Quarterly

Through collaborative action, Mothers Out Front East Boston is fighting for the right to breathe clean air and live and work in a community that is safe and healthy. We are demanding equal protection and equal enforcement of environmental laws and regulations. East Boston is a historically working-class, immigrant neighborhood.

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How to Tell Real Stories About Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In research I did with collaborators for the Broke Project , we found that most stories, profiles, and vignettes related to work to end poverty follow this pattern: while an organization is the protagonist, poor people are defined only by their experience with poverty. How have you been since we last connected?

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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How to End Wage Theft—and Advance Immigrant Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Wage theft is not a legal term but rather a term used by advocates, attorneys, and policymakers when describing any action by employers that deprives a worker of receiving wages they are entitled to under the law. The law also strengthened workers’ options for recourse when employers fail to comply with these provisions.