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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. That means transforming the zoning regulations, financial structures, and social patterns that separated them, just over a century ago.

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Why Guardianship Reform Is a Civil Rights Imperative

NonProfit Quarterly

A new report by the Massachusetts Guardianship Policy Institute indicates that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 “unbefriended” or “unrepresented, at-risk” individuals in my home state “face significant risks to their health, safety, and well-being due to decisional incapacity and a lack of financial or social resources.”

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

For the first five years, Springboard operated programs for education reentry, workforce development, and afterschool programs, but our families told us they didn’t need another program. But it is past time to move from programs to policy. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

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Monitoring Inequality: The Case for Widening Access to Innovations in Diabetes Management

NonProfit Quarterly

Theyre also vital for preventionby providing detailed, real-time information to their users, CGMs serve as educational tools for patients about managing and mitigating their disease in the long-term. While these uses of CGMs may have merit, this trend has transformed their reputation from critical medical devices into lifestyle gadgets.

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A Call to Coalition: On Whiteness in Healing and Movement Spaces

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: ROCKETMANN TEAM on Pexels The movement work to which I am called requires a multiracial, multigenerational coalition of organizers and advocates to shift policies and systems toward giving power and land back to Indigenous and Black people. I was raised as a Pentecostal Christian (COGIC) by a single, divorced mother.

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#WeTheCivic: “America’s” Stories Can’t Be Told Without Us 

NonProfit Quarterly

Mentored teenagers building educational dreams denied to their parents. The nonprofit sector employs over 12 million people , but Capitol Hill dismisses our policy power. Every voice we don’t amplify is a policy we can’t pass. Authoritarians understand narrative as warfare: Control the story, and you control the policy.