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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This issue lingers like a vestige of the conditions that followed abolition, after which the government failed to provide the kinds of education, labor, and other supports necessary to transition from a life of enslavement to one of agency, independence, and prosperity. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

His ideas changed paradigms of public health and human rights, and he demonstrated that it’s possible to deliver world-class medical care to people in the most resource-poor settings imaginable. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

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How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. What can be done to address this gap?

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Towards Thriving: Building a Movement for Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, during the Great Depression and the decades that followed, in a process called redlining, the government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board systematically denied loans to Black and Brown folks, excluding them from home ownership. million school-aged children every day.

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