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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Extensive research shows that public policy can shape economic outcomes. The public can demand economic policies that benefit the broader population. A key question becomes: What kind of economic policies should the public demand? Wealth is a fundamental measure of stability and opportunity.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. The hub will educate and guide tenants to manage or own their own housing and support various resident and community governance structures.

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What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers

NonProfit Quarterly

Tara Evonne Trudell (Santee Sioux/Rarmuri/Xicana), a visual artist interviewed for the report, notes that Western justice feels like a colonial construct imposed upon Indigenous people. One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government.

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: AndreyPopov on iStock The seeds of a financial system that works for the public are already all around us, from credit unions and loan funds to community bonds and Green Banks. The Bank of Rochester is poised to lead the way, demonstrating whats possible when governments put public money to work for the public good.

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The Role of Immigrant “Second Responders”—What the LA Wildfires Teach Us

NonProfit Quarterly

This spring, Theodore assembled a research team to examine the status of second responders at construction and recovery sites across Altadena. What Philanthropy and Public Policy Can Do Sadly, given the climate crisis, natural disasters are only likely to become more frequent. What can philanthropy and public policy do?

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Latine Community Groups Mobilize to Defend Medicaid Against Cuts

NonProfit Quarterly

For many families—especially those employed in the construction, domestic work, or food industries, where employers rarely offer worker health insurance—Medicaid is the only path to essential care. For Latine health advocates, the implications of Medicaid cuts go beyond access—they touch on trust in the government and the healthcare system.

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What the Anti-Slavery Movement Can Offer for a Livable Climate

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In the last five years, 1,500 kilometers of illegal side roads have been constructed off the major highway intersecting the forest in southern Amazonas state, in the loggers’ quest to reach precious woods and carve out areas for cattle ranching. What does it take for communities like these to exercise power against slavery and deforestation?