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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article introduces a new series, titled Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. This article introduces our series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.

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Making Policy Work for Rural Communities: The Value of Community Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Philanthropy often relies on large, national intermediaries that lack local knowledge and relationships.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

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How to Eliminate the Myth of Meritocracy and Build the World We Deserve

NonProfit Quarterly

The myth of American meritocracy is not merely an occasional story; it is upheld daily by social systems, structures, and cultural narratives. The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws.

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Building a City of the Future by Restoring Its Past: A Story from Black Memphis

NonProfit Quarterly

The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Soft skills, relationship building, and culture will all still matter across industries and job types. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. While this sounds like bad news for workers, cheapening tenure and reducing the costs of turnover, workers are more than their technical knowledge.