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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

If, instead, we see leadership as a matter of finding and following new paths in collaboration with others, then it is more about understanding interactions among people and their environments and navigating a variety of unpredictable situations along the way. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

However, in social policy, academics and policy makers can use the rhetoric of evidence-based policy in policy deliberations to dismiss rather than resolve the complex ways that community values and research evidence interact. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.

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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

The full refundability of the credit disproportionately benefited children who are Black or Latinx , who were more likely to be denied the full credit under prior law because their families earned too little. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy calculated that 3.7 percentage points in 2021.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.