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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Many times, government and nonprofit representatives had come to Starleen’s Summit Lake neighborhood and indicated that things were going to improve, but not much ever came of it. “My Supported by five national foundations— JPB , Knight , Kresge , Rockefeller , and William Penn —each city received $4 million from the funder collaborative.

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Lifting a Powerful Policy Lever for Housing Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tiffany Manuel & Dana Bourland What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? Public comment ended in April 2023, and HUD will likely release the final rule sometime later this year.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

In developing the report, the EPA accepted feedback from the public from October 2021 through March 2022 and conducted nearly a dozen public listening sessions, including one for tribal communities as they are some of the most impacted by lead. No amount of lead is safe in the blood.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The long and continued practice of racist housing practices and policies in the United States means that Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color are the most likely to have insecure access to safe and affordable housing, to be unhoused— and to live in places that are disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change.