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Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Dianne Calvi & Taddeo Muriuki In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale effectively to combat the growing challenges of extreme poverty? The stakes have never been higher.

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Defying the Odds: The Case for Investing in Organizing Workers in the South

NonProfit Quarterly

In Alabama and Tennessee, communities are banding together to ensure that funding for clean energy benefits workers and local residentsnot just corporate shareholders. In Louisiana, for example, workers are holding dollar store chains accountable for paying poverty wages and creating unsafe work environments.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country. Notes See “Hydropower Lower Sesan II,” Royal Group, accessed July 13, 2024, royalgroup.com.kh/ business-portfolio/energy-division/hydropower-lower-sesan-2.

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The Role of AI Agents in Addressing Global Challenges of Social Enterprises

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

As the complexity of global issues like climate change, poverty, and inequality continues to escalate, AI agents are emerging as transformative tools. AI-driven solutions for sustainability also help enterprises optimize energy usage, manage waste, and reduce carbon footprints.

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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Holdsclaw argued that CDFIs must remain feisty and must take on completely the violence of poverty. Meanwhile, the broader challenge of balancing movement energy and industry acumen persists. By contrast, a movement is more values-based, is more inclusive and diverse, and tends to be feisty and combative.

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Cultivating a Liberatory Board

NonProfit Quarterly

In turn, this shifts nonprofits focus away from addressing underlying systemic problems like poverty and racism to superficial solutions that are more palatable to the rich. Boards are unequal, inequitable models of governance, in which the wealthiest often impose their interests onto the nonprofits they oversee.

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What’s Next for CDFIs? The Challenge and Opportunity of Place

NonProfit Quarterly

Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national network of CDFIs, expects this federal investment will transform the clean energy financing ecosystem nationwide. If unaddressed, this disparity could hinder the distribution of clean energy financing to underserved regions. National CDFI coverage has long been a movement goal.

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