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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. These intrapreneurs are creative and self-motivated.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Regulatory policy, tied to long-term care agreements with impact investment funds, can contractually require that certain health and social care standards are met, thereby helping ensure the vulnerable elderly population receives the quality care that is largely being paid for by taxpayer money. Social Finance in North America.”

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

NonProfit Quarterly

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States engaged in an innovative policy experiment: for one year, the federal government expanded the existing child tax credit—making it available to families with little or no earnings, increasing the credit amount, and providing monthly payments instead of an annual payment at tax time.

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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. 9 The rents collected by CDCs strengthened market approaches to poverty, encouraging what we now may refer to as sustainability.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.