Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

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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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, death reminders make people more protective of their social group – and more resistant to outside groups.[5] 5] Group opinions and social “norms” become more powerful.[6] 6] People become more interested in social prestige,[7] fame,[8] a positive life story,[9] personal heroism,[10] or putting their name on something.[11]

Psychology 52

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. Seeing trauma through a systems lens can inform strategies for social change in a multitude of ways.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Hard-wired into systems and programs at all levels of government and the private sector, these policies bolstered white Americans’ stability, wealth, and access to opportunity while concentrating the effects of segregation, displacement, destabilization, gentrification, and poverty on BIPOC populations.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, the Poor People’s Campaign’s efforts to secure a cut to US military spending calls for an end to systemic racism, poverty and inequality, ecological devastation, and militarism and the war economy. 20 But just as these systems were deliberately constructed, they can be deliberately deconstructed. This history is important.

Construction 80

Construction Environmental Public and Social Policy Activism 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Public and Social Policy 98

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2024

Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series examines the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice. These racist stories then shape our policies for years and years.

Public and Social Policy 98

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

This lack of rural access (RA) particularly impacts young girls and women living in poverty, who are often left behind when it comes to education, health-care services, and opportunities to generate income. Without access, these communities become isolated and, as a result, experience reduced economic, educational, and social opportunities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 12, 2023

.” Against the will of many Ngāti Maru members, countless acres were opened for British settlement, which rendered the tribe nearly landless, led to generations of economic, cultural, social, and spiritual hardship. ” By mid-2018, the New Zealand government had signed 73 settlements into law, valuing $2.24

Governance 93

Governance Health Public and Social Policy Culture 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives. The result is that public funding will largely benefit wealthier households. 8 This system of publicly regulated monopoly utilities is still with us today.

Energy 86

Energy Law Governance Public and Social Policy 86

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Image Credit: RDNE Stock project on pexels.com What is social housing? But to make it more than just a slogan, you need policies and institutions to make that right into a reality. Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 13, 2023

This model forces communities to pay the enormous costs of unneeded transmission line construction and bear the massive burden of transmission line failures. And this tyranny has now spread to the federal level, as substantial public investment is now set to go toward large-scale renewable energy projects across the country.

Energy 89

Energy Construction Environmental Governance 89

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? We think it can. We think it can.

Public and Social Policy 76

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 76

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. It arises in moments of social tumult, like the one in which we’re living. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Philanthropy Poverty Sociology 97

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2019, the US Census Bureau also reported that, after adjusting for the cost of essentials such as housing, gas, and electricity, California had the highest level of “functional poverty” of all 50 states, at 18.2 These results created a unique opportunity to advance worker ownership policy.

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Public and Social Policy Law Poverty Healthcare 123

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

A new social contract —that is, a structural change in the relationship of the public to the government, the 1930s New Deal being the quintessential US example—seemed to just maybe be at hand. The struggle for a more progressive social contract continues. million children out of poverty. Paid family leave?

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