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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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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Data labs and policy labs such as Gov Lab , Data Justice Lab , Washington State Institute for Public Policy, The Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab , Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy , help to stratify and assess data so that it can be used to make comparisons, determine ROI, and improve outcomes.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

Ford School of Public Policy and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March and June of this year, examined monthly surveys submitted by more than 20,000 parents receiving the expanded benefit. The relatively small cash infusions, the researchers found, served to significantly reduce household hunger.