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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Balancing Immediate Needs and Long-Term Solutions Baby bonds highlight a fundamental tension in social policy: addressing immediate needs versus investing in long-term solutions. A universal federal program would provide more consistent support. State programscreate a patchwork of approaches.

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Philanthropy can help close the tech gender gap with better design, data, and infrastructure

Candid

As vice president of philanthropy and impact partnerships at Rewriting the Code, an organization working to empower university students and early-career women in tech, I’ve seen the challenges women in tech face and how philanthropic investments in nonprofit programs can strategically respond to the tech gender gap.

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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Renjilian holds a Masters in Social Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago and has served as the Executive Director of Community Connections for Children since 2011. And it’s how you ensure a successful flight and landing. About the Author: Christy S.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Policy bodies like the National Governor’s Association are calling for more tailored mental health planning. 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.

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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Renjilian holds a Masters in Social Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago and has served as the Executive Director of Community Connections for Children since 2011. Bring bagels and serve them in your new office. About the Author: Christy S. Renjilian, Executive Director, Community Connections for Children Christy S.

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The Economic Case against Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

The recent studies, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. 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