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Human Rights

  • Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Guaranteed Income

    Northern California Grantmakers Jun 20, 2022

    The idea of guaranteed income has a long history but its modern, progressive origins in the U.S. are rooted in the racial and gender justice movements of the 1960s. Guaranteed…

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  • Racial Discrimination Impacts the Number of Days Incarcerated

    PLOS Jun 20, 2022

    Objective Racial discrimination and racial identity may compete to influence incarceration risk. We estimated the predicted days incarcerated in a national US sample of Black, Latino/Latina, and American Indian/Alaska Native…

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  • The Importance of Collecting LGBTQ Student Data

    The 74 Jun 20, 2022

    With an unprecedented rise in the number of youth identifying as LGBTQ — and equally unprecedented efforts to curtail their rights — a leading national advocacy group is calling on…

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  • The Origin of the Social Enterprise

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jun 19, 2022

    By the 20th century, the deepening of the economic division of labor resulted in an increase in frequency of transactions and complexity of cooperative relationships. Dealing with the modern world’s…

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  • Investing in Black Migrants Starts With Community

    Nonprofit Quarterly Jun 19, 2022

    Black migrants—asylum-seekers, refugees, and immigrants—are often neglected in funding conversations about immigrant justice. The Black Migrant Power Fund (BMPF) is a new community-led fund that aims to change this by connecting Black,…

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  • How Ukraine Triggered a Global Food Shortage

    Brookings Jun 19, 2022

    Russian ships and sea mines block Ukrainian Black Sea ports. Before the war, Ukraine exported on average about 6 million tons of agri-commodities monthly to countries in the Middle East,…

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  • Rebalance: How Women Can Lead and Thrive

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jun 18, 2022

    We wrote Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner, and Thrive in the depths of the pandemic, at a time of massive change and deep reflection. We wanted to explore what it takes…

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  • Why Gender Inclusion is Necessary in Finance Systems

    Philanthropy News Digest Jun 18, 2022

    Despite the large number of financial transactions that take place on a daily basis, nearly a billion women around the world are still excluded from the financial system—and opportunities to…

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  • Understanding the Many Forms of Elder Abuse and Addressing Mistreatment

    The Conversation Jun 18, 2022

    Before the pandemic, around 1 in 10 older adults in the U.S. experienced elder mistreatment. In 2020, this number doubled to 1 in 5 – a nearly 84% increase. Mistreatment…

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  • The Environmental Harms of Prisons Put Incarcerated Individuals at Risk

    Prison Policy Initiative Jun 18, 2022

    No one is spared from reckoning with human-induced environmental change, like pollution from industrial emitters and increasingly severe natural disasters. Yet in correctional facilities, incarcerated people have no agency over…

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  • How Philanthropy Can Invest in LGBTQ Healthcare

    Grantmakers in Health Jun 17, 2022

    Discrimination is all too common and prevents LGBTQ people from living healthy lives. A 2016 survey of more than 3,000 LGBTQ Missourians conducted by PROMO, Missouri’s LGBTQ statewide advocacy organization,…

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    How Donors Can Help Protect Our Most At-risk Population: Children in Crises

    Center for Disaster Philanthropy Jun 17, 2022

    Approximately 90% of the brain’s growth occurs within the first five years of life, making this period of early childhood development (ECD) a critical moment in one’s ability to become…

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