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

NonProfit Quarterly

This expanded child tax credit was incredibly effective: child poverty went down by a record-breaking amount , lifting an estimated 2.9 million children out of poverty, reducing food hardship, decreasing parent financial stress, and more. Schools closed, unemployment and poverty skyrocketed, and health and wellness plummeted.

Poverty 101
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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

These structures go beyond the physical infrastructure of poles, wires, and pipes to encompass the culture, laws, institutions, and power structures that shape who gets to live today and who gets to live—and even thrive—in the coming decades. As one example, the Reimagined Energy For Our Communities U.S.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A third of the people in this country, nearly 100 million, live below 200 percent of the federal poverty level , where the loss of income from even a short-term illness can be insurmountable. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. This work is urgent. It won’t be easy.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

1 The Dawn of the Nonprofit Sector Dunning begins the history of the nonprofit sector in the 1960s, when protests against discrimination prompted political leaders to look for solutions to persistent poverty. And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

The Bill & Melinda Gates , Ford , and Open Society foundations have announced commitments of $2.1 The commitment includes $650 million to expand the foundation's support for women's empowerment collectives and efforts to strengthen the care economy, improve women's financial inclusion, and reduce barriers to paid work; and $1.4

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Funding Equitable Abortion Access in Battleground States

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Jackson Women’s Health, half the country has strict abortion restrictions in effect or queued up to take effect over the coming months, making it difficult, if not impossible, for people to access abortion care. No one should ever have to choose between paying rent and accessing health care.

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Where Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?

NonProfit Quarterly

Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 How Location Affects the Foundation-to-Grantee Pipeline Most foundations are located on the coasts of the United States—mainly in New York and California.