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Ending Child Poverty: Lessons from a One-Year Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

NonProfit Quarterly

The full refundability of the credit disproportionately benefited children who are Black or Latinx , who were more likely to be denied the full credit under prior law because their families earned too little. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy calculated that 3.7 percentage points in 2021.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

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.” The vehicle for the development of nonprofit infrastructure was government grants, beginning with President Lyndon B.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Between 2010 and 2019, 138 SIBs accounting for $441 million in capital have been issued globally, ranging in causes from workforce development to education and medical services (Hulse, Atun, and McPake 2021). Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” We flesh out each below.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. The murder of unarmed Black men by law enforcement continues unabated. Yet that disagreement pushes our shared quest for liberation forward.