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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” The murder of unarmed Black men by law enforcement continues unabated. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.