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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Claire Dunning In early 1926, Cafritz Construction placed an advertisement in The Washington Post celebrating the speed with which their “Life-time Homes” were selling in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, DC. Perhaps potential buyers would be swayed by the “superior construction” or the “unusually big lots.”

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. Government support was required. 2 Self-sufficiency enterprises predated the crisis.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.

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To Build Narrative Power for Reparations, We Need Infrastructure

NonProfit Quarterly

Taylor If the Government has the right to free us, she had a right to make some provision for us and since she did not make it soon after Emancipation, she ought to make it now. One tool is to construct new narratives, which are spoken or written accounts of a series of events that we tell each other. Composition by Devyn H.