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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The only stakeholders who seem to be benefitting are the evaluation consultants, who profit greatly from what some refer to as an “evaluation-industrial complex.” To illustrate, here are three examples of registries as they work in those different sectors: health care, genetic research, and climate change.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This approach has been key to the remarkable progressive reshaping of California’s policy landscape, as well as to changes of national significance like Georgia’s blue shift. Marginalized communities gain power over economic and social policy only when corporate influence is diminished and white supremacy is derailed.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. Interview has been edited for length and clarity.