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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity. Starting in 2010, the CEO authorized and worked closely with the organization’s COO to prioritize racial equity, both internally and in its public policy work.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Global Social Policy 14 (2): 74–277. We flesh out each below. References Brennan, D., Himmelweit, and M. The Marketisation of Care: Rationales and Consequences in Nordic and Liberal Care Regimes.” Burns, D., Folkman, J.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

However, in social policy, academics and policy makers can use the rhetoric of evidence-based policy in policy deliberations to dismiss rather than resolve the complex ways that community values and research evidence interact. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The full refundability of the credit disproportionately benefited children who are Black or Latinx , who were more likely to be denied the full credit under prior law because their families earned too little. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy calculated that 3.7 percentage points in 2021.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

5 As they did, many became politicized; so, they began pushing for economic and social policies that would end discrimination and redistribute resources to the masses at home and abroad. The murder of unarmed Black men by law enforcement continues unabated. People witnessed the raw hypocrisy of January 6.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

After that, the idea is transferred into French law and political theory in the 1800s and finds its way into politics. Two other uses of the concept arise around the same time: Emile Durkheim’s sociological theory of social cohesion and the Marxist vision of the labor movement’s solidarity as an engine for change.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Community activists and nonprofit leaders sought to move the sector from providing individual services to strengthening communities by allying nonprofit organizations with similar struggles and missions to engage in policy advocacy.