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Candid

APRIL 17, 2025

Among millennials, 86% said they would consider a pay cut to work for a company that aligns with their values. More than half of Gen Z workers research a companys environmental and social policies before accepting a job, and many have turned down opportunities because of a misalignment in values.

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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The advisory group, in its early days, spent a lot of time on values clarification and team-building exercises. We wrestled with hard questions… “Does this policy make sense in practice? It’s so easy to practice simple social interactions. People want to be seen, it’s a metric for being valued and appreciated.

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Designing for Better Mental Health Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

That you can’t fix that, [can’t] have social policies that attend to people who are marginalized if you don’t see those people as people. They simply won’t adopt social policies. In fact, they will adopt social policies that hurt themselves in order to hurt those people. And some people say, “No.”

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 24, 2023

Recent research by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy supports such assertions, finding that a permanent expanded child tax credit “would deliver a value to society eight times the annual costs.”

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A new narrative will also revitalize “older ideas” like the sacredness of our planet, the interconnection between our well-being and the well-being of the land, and the value of communities to help us live in right relationship with each other. Building a new narrative for social change is a complex and long-term endeavor.

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Why the Social Sector Needs an Impact Registry

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

Leveraging Spending Power for Social Impact The SDGs combine targets and metrics, which cities have found useful for evaluating how their spending aligns to environmental, economic, and social policies. The US federal government is increasingly recognizing the value of this local leadership. Only with federal partnership.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

However inexperienced and/or entitled staff may be, my interactions with younger staff members have consistently shown me that they are sophisticated enough to know that just because one shares a historically oppressed identity does not mean one shares the same values or vision for justice. Well, turns out they were still working on that.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2023

That is, if, due to low earnings, the tax owed is less than the value of the tax credit, they would receive the difference as a rebate. Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Social Finance in North America.” Global Social Policy 14 (2): 74–277. References Brennan, D., Himmelweit, and M.

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This erasure of Black women from social policy built on a single-axis framework is especially true with respect to housing. Having the ability and access to own a home would give me peace of mind because it would make me feel more valued as a resident of this city.”. Image Credit: Angelina Sorokin.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 8, 2024

There is even a political tendency at the time called Solidarism which proposes that solidarity is the solution to problems arising from the Industrial Revolution—and puts forward social policies and ideas about the role of the state. Capitalism reduces everything to its exchange value. It drives all of us.

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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. It is systemic and values based.

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Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Black Women’s Views on Homeownership Is Key to Progress

Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

Work Requirements Are Rooted in the History of Slavery

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