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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There are, of course, lessons to be learned from the global pandemic.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” In the U.S.,

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration.

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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The original inhabitants of what is now the United States migrated to this region between 40,000 to 14,000 years ago. It is these first peoples who are Indigenous and became what we now call American Indian/Alaska Native peoples in the United States and First Nations populations in Canada. What’s In a Name?

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New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics tells us that as of 2021, public school students in the U.S. For the past four years, the Schott Foundation for Public Education has worked with Candid to measure the grantmaking priorities of those in K-12 education philanthropy. billion, just 14 percent of the $18.9

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How to Make Guaranteed Income Work: Ten Lessons from Newark, New Jersey

NonProfit Quarterly

It is nonetheless considerably less bureaucratic than typical social safety net policies in that it provides a steady, predictable stream of cash to recipients to spend however they see fit. The Magnolia Mother’s Trust , now the longest-running guaranteed income pilot program in the United States, was launched in 2018.

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The Legislature at Halfway

MNA Association

As we jump into the second half of the legislative session we offer this high-level summary of the issues and bills MNA has been working on. Special thanks also to MNA’s 20-member volunteer Public Policy Advisory Council which offers direction and recommendations to our staff and board. Sign up for our weekly policy updates.