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  • If You Want to Advance Justice in 2023, Plan Your Giving Strategy Now

    Giving Compass Nov 7, 2022

    As we look ahead to 2023, there is certainly no shortage of big problems for donors to help tackle – reproductive rights access, humanitarian crises, plummeting math and reading test…

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    Investing in Civil Society to Build Trustworthy Governments

    Chandler Foundation Nov 6, 2022

    After days of travel by foot and bus north from southern Honduras, Dolores was forced to stop. Her daughter Andrea was running a high fever and needed medical attention, Dolores…

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    Why Social Investors Should Bolster Policy Advocacy Efforts

    Chandler Foundation Nov 5, 2022

    “One” by Sage Hasson “Billions of people all struggling to [fulfil] seeming different agenda But we are all are in pursuit of one collective destiny We all need just one…

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    Lessons About Families from Homelessness Data in 2020

    The National Alliance to End Homelessness Nov 4, 2022

    Each year, the release of the national Point-in-Time (PIT) Count garners a lot of attention from the media. The PIT provides very important information – a snapshot – that captures…

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  • Building a Stronger Child Care System That Works

    LISC Nov 2, 2022

    Child care and early learning programs, at their core, play a critical role in the development of young children. They operate at a critical nexus – the intersection of economic…

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  • How Funders Are Addressing Gun Violence

    Philanthropy News Digest Nov 2, 2022

    Amid a surge in gun violence across the United States, funders increasingly are supporting collaborative community violence intervention (CVI) efforts, which can include hospital-based intervention, street outreach, and intense mentorship…

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  • How Debt-for-climate Swaps Can Help Solve Low-income Countries’ Fiscal and Environmental Challenges

    The Conversation Nov 1, 2022

    Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley spoke passionately to the United Nations General Assembly in September about the mounting debt many developing countries are shouldering and its increasing impact on…

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  • Emperor Penguins Get Endangered Species Act Protection – Can It Save Them?

    The Conversation Nov 1, 2022

    Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips…

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    Centering South Africa’s Youth Voices to Build Democracy

    Chandler Foundation Oct 31, 2022

    All the World’s a Stage I always knew I would use my voice to change the world. When my soprano singing voice landed me an invitation to attend the Royal…

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  • Youth-led Organizing Against Big Tech Companies

    YES! Magazine Oct 30, 2022

    As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon…

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    Daniel Sachs: Building Responsive Political Ecosystems

    Chandler Foundation Oct 30, 2022

    Democracy Creates the Circumstances of its Own Demise When Simon Sachs, my great, great grandfather, left Thüringen, Germany in the early 1850s and journeyed across the Baltic Sea to start…

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  • Considerations Before Utilizing the Ocean to Fight Climate Change

    The Conversation Oct 30, 2022

    Heat waves, droughts and extreme weather are endangering people and ecosystems somewhere in the world almost every day. These extremes are exacerbated by climate change, driven primarily by increasing emissions…

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