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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need? In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need?

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India’s Philanthropy Spending Grows, Development Goals Elusive

The NonProfit Times

Despite the robust annual increases, however, the current total falls short of the 13% of GDP analysts at NITI Aayog, an Indian government public policy think tank, believe is necessary for the country to meet its commitment to achieving 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. of net worth vs. 0.1% for UHNIs).”

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More Than Just a Structure: The Myriad Impacts of Black Women’s Exclusion from Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Given the rules, policies, and structures that define our housing market today, ownership and maintenance of a home requires seed wealth, which generally comes from intergenerational wealth transfers. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. A house is far more than a structure. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. These results are no accident.

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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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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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Locked Out: The Myth of the Black Middle Class

NonProfit Quarterly

The reality of the US housing market, however, is that Black Americans have been either shut out from it or preyed upon, resulting in a significant loss of Black wealth. Wealth differences widen dramatically as Black Americans become more educated.