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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Curated Lifestyle on Unsplash This article introduces a three-part series— Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds —a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. Rebekah Barber: Can you tell me about your background and how you got involved with Race Forward? Leslie Grant-Spann: This year is my tenth anniversary on staff. Louis and Ferguson. What do they want?

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When Can Volunteers Lead?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takeson the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. You wouldnt want to have board members of a theater never attend a theater production.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One path leads to a conventional wholesale buyer who pays below the cost of production, since prices are forced down by cheap, subsidized imports. Another path leads to it being purchased by a “farm incubator” who will make it available to refugee farmers growing culturally meaningful crops and contributing to their economic mobility.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Politicians are influenced by money as much as or, frankly, often much more than votes, and public policy is the product of calculating trade-offs between the two. Of course, securing a significant bloc of potential votes is only part of the battle.

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How to Fix the Nation’s DAF System—a $250 Billion Question

NonProfit Quarterly

The end product would be a cleaner and more straightforward tax policy, with billions of dollars activated to make the world a better place. Last year, a number of people in the field came together to launch the Philanthropy Project, advocating for public policies to make sure charitable funds benefit the public.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Meanwhile, public policy failed to address the economic drivers of poverty. The nations modern era of homelessness similarly has economic and policy drivers. I think when poor and low-income peoplewhen unhoused folkorganize, we can show that deep transformation is possible.