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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 My first thought was, ‘Here we go. A bunch of professionals are coming in to tell us what they are going to do,’” said Saulsberry.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Work requirements are based on several problematic truths about the United States: an unwillingness to govern by fact rather than fiction, a deep history of racism and sexism, and a centuries-long capitalist work ethic that treats people as dispensable. They are administratively efficient.

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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

As Health Affairs reported, using data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, “37 million homes in the United States have lead-based paint that will become a hazard if not closely monitored and maintained, and, of those, more 23 million homes have one or more significant lead-based paint hazard.”

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Other doers—like our own organization Growth Teams , or the ODI Fellowship —work at the policy level with governments, to formulate more sound policy proposals or to enable better implementation of governments’ economic strategies.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

Candid

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided $22 billion in official development assistance. Non-DAC government donors and multilateral organizations contributed an additional $2.8 billion. . The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed $3.2

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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?

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Annual point-in-time data by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development indicates that about one-quarter of families who have experienced homelessness once will succumb to it again.