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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The process provided a structure for people from all positional levels across a complex, multi-agency, state government system to share knowledge and experiences in a way that helped them navigate state bureaucracy. Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. By Jason Saul. Each of these initiatives has made positive steps in the right direction, collecting and centralizing data, consistently coding information, and creating applied use cases for research.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

Ford School of Public Policy and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March and June of this year, examined monthly surveys submitted by more than 20,000 parents receiving the expanded benefit. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.