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  • Leveraging Technology for Social Change

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jan 6, 2024

    Right now, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild and reimagine America’s infrastructure systems. Following a decade of underfunding and maintenance backlogs, last year’s historic bipartisan commitment of more than $1 trillion…

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  • How Funders Can Bolster Community Power-building

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jan 5, 2024

    Over the past decade, philanthropic leaders and others working for progressive social change have increasingly focused on culture. This growing interest in culture comes from a dual understanding that achieving…

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  • Why We Need Policy to Support Informal Childcare

    The Hechinger Report Jan 3, 2024

    Informal childcare is common, but often invisible in broader policy discussions.

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  • The Effort to Protect the Rights of Voters With Disabilities

    Disability Scoop Dec 23, 2023

    Paralyzed from the neck down, downtown Milwaukee resident Martha Chambers has difficulty voting. She can use a mouth stick to mark her ballot and sign her name on an absentee…

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  • Opportunities to Support and Advance Youth Feminists

    Alliance Magazine Dec 23, 2023

    When we think about the ways that philanthropy has worked historically, what we’ve heard from and shared with young activists during the Pro-action Cafe (a community space for open conversations…

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  • Defining Hate Crimes Depends On Where You Live

    Marshall Project Dec 22, 2023

    A hodgepodge of state and local laws makes some violence a hate crime in some places, but not in others.

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  • California Banned Sales of Flavored E-cigarettes in 2022 − But Online Stores are Still Selling Them to Kids

    The Conversation Dec 22, 2023

    The study suggests that online sales to kids went unchanged in the months after the law went into effect.

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  • What Can Philanthropists Learn From Young People?

    NPC Dec 21, 2023

    Philanthropy is often seen in a positive light, modelling as the definition of charitable, and used as a buzzword to describe how people do good in the world. Yet many…

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  • The Continuing Power of Black-led Change

    Minnesota Black Collective Foundation Dec 20, 2023

    /PRNewswire/ — Formed in the wake of the 2020 Uprising for Racial Justice in response to George Floyd’s murder, the Black Collective Foundation MN (the…

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  • SNAP Participants Who Live in Food Deserts Aren’t Getting Access to Food They Need

    Futurity Dec 19, 2023

    SNAP participants in low-income households, especially those that live in food deserts, may still struggle to get enough nutritious food.

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  • Urgency and Action on Social Change Activism

    YES! Magazine Dec 19, 2023

    Whether you’re ready, weary, or wise, you can take your movement engagement to the next level.

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  • The Structural Changes Needed to Decolonize Philanthropy

    Alliance Magazine Dec 17, 2023

    Over the past year and a half, the United States has reckoned with the pandemic, a breakdown of race relations, rising wealth inequality, the looming threat of climate change and…

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