Candid

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Study finds significant connection between poverty, poor health care. Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M. Harvard Graduate School of Education receives $40 million gift. Melinda French Gates won’t give bulk of her wealth to Gates Foundation.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Poverty Healthcare Social Policy 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What became abundantly clear was that change from the top down—new policies, new programs, new funding—was simply unattainable in the toxic and polarized political environment that has become the new norm, inhibiting new social policies from being enacted (let alone the funding mechanisms needed to pay for them).

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Health Governance Education 114

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We recommend that in the coming years foundations put the power of their significant resources behind three themes, each with a different kind of transformative potential. It is also not flashy: It means funding IT support for phonebanks, trainings for volunteer canvassing, and printing of voter-education materials.

Public and Social Policy 96

Public and Social Policy Governance Foundations Non-Profits 96

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted. The pandemic also reinforced generations-old racial inequities and cracks in our social systems. They give us a clear roadmap for how we can successfully reduce poverty and provide children with a secure foundation that will allow them to thrive.

Poverty 103

Poverty Children Social Policy Food 103

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2023

Johnson’s War on Poverty, which “expanded individual benefits related to health, education, and welfare and doubled down on the idea of working with nonprofit organizations.” And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Governance 109

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing. After the Great Depression and World War II, President Roosevelt is pushed by organized labor, unemployed movements, and geopolitical urgencies to build the foundation for the welfare state. What would this let us create?

Manufacturing 143

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 143