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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision.

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Transforming Our Housing System

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They were also more likely to live in units that were overcrowded or contaminated by lead, asbestos, and other environmental hazards within high-poverty, low-opportunity communities. Households of color were significantly more likely to be evicted, foreclosed upon, or displaced from their homes by gentrification.

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Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide

Nonprofit Megaphone

Kiss the Ground is committed to educating the public about the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. In their online shop , 100% of all sales proceeds go toward helping save the lives of homeless pets! We educate and raise awareness for bonobos and their plight locally and globally.” Kiss the Ground.

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Centering Racial Justice in the Fight for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s been this way for centuries , beginning with the displacement of Native People in the 1800s and continuing with the use of eminent domain laws to take desirable land away from thriving Black communities. Shift more power to those who have been most disadvantaged.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because poverty and food insecurity is at record highs in the United States. National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because a good education should be a right, not a privildege. Because access to health care should be a right, not a privildege. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because poverty and food insecurity is at record highs in the United States. National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because a good education should be a right, not a privildege. Because access to health care should be a right, not a privildege. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube.

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