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India’s Philanthropy Spending Grows, Development Goals Elusive

The NonProfit Times

Despite the robust annual increases, however, the current total falls short of the 13% of GDP analysts at NITI Aayog, an Indian government public policy think tank, believe is necessary for the country to meet its commitment to achieving 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. of net worth vs. 0.1% for UHNIs).”

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More Than Just a Structure: The Myriad Impacts of Black Women’s Exclusion from Homeownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Given the rules, policies, and structures that define our housing market today, ownership and maintenance of a home requires seed wealth, which generally comes from intergenerational wealth transfers. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. A house is far more than a structure. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin. These results are no accident.

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Equity in Employment: A Vital Step Toward Dismantling Structural Racism in Brazil

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data released in 2022 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, “Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics”) shows that unemployment and informal labor are higher among this group, which is also more exposed to violence and poverty. Per the World Bank’s poverty line threshold, 18.6

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From Owing to Owning: How Communities Can Control Commercial Land

NonProfit Quarterly

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. percent poverty rate (as of 2001). Paul, tells Duranti-Martinez, for public policy to go beyond funding community ownership “experiments.”

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

One central challenge is that the majority of mainstream economists believe that capitalist markets can solve all (or at least most) global problems, and they contend that continual economic growth within this system is required to improve the lives of the billions of people living in poverty.

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HLTH 2022: Obstacles to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues. I kicked off our discussion with some stats around the market. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.