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Housing and Local Solutions: Elevating What Works

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Too often, national funders look at national problems and think the solutions must be in Washington, DC. Well, we know that’s not always the case. Usually, new solutions are imagined, developed, and piloted at the local level by local leaders. Key Ingredients of Local Initiatives.

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Funding for Radical Imagination and Liberation

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference program included Short Talks—engaging, 20-minute, keynote-style presentations that challenge current philanthropic culture and practice and inspire participants to think about the topic, their work, and/or their lives differently. At GEO’s 2022 National Conference, hosted in partnership with?Forefront, You said you were.

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Drive Your Nonprofit’s Mission by Investing in Your People

Blue Avocado

As a passionate and committed leader in the nonprofit sector, I firmly believe in the power of community organizations to drive positive, equitable change. The crux of this article is simple: Nonprofits must advance their mission by valuing their employees’ worth through fair compensation and benefits and by celebrating their worth.

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Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the US medical system, if a baby is Black, she is more than twice as likely to die as a white baby, regardless of her mother’s investment in education or prenatal care. Funders have poured money into analyzing the age, education, prenatal care, genetics, behavior, and income of people having babies, but have not found meaningful answers.

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

Go beyond his small, self-focused original world, Pursue the hope of victory impacting the larger world, and. But just asking questions isn’t enough. To be Socratic, the questions must guide toward a goal. In fundraising, the “one big thing” is always the same: Advance the donor’s hero story. Socratic fundraising can do this.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yermine Richardson/ www.popcaribe.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.” It cannot be a coincidence. 7 One study respondent said, “[Black women] are not doing well.”

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Disability Justice—in the Workplace (and Beyond)

NonProfit Quarterly

“THE MAN ON THE HILL” BY EKOW BREW/ WWW.EKOWBREW.COM Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ’s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health.” Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. Disability justice represents the second wave of the disability rights movement.