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  • How Mobile Technology Can Help the Homeless Population

    RAND Corporation Jul 30, 2022

    Mobile technology has become ubiquitous to 21st Century living, in terms of how we receive and exchange information, for both social and economic interactions. Many of us start our day…

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  • When Does Inequality in K-8 Education Grow?

    Getting Smart Jul 30, 2022

    Summer is the long-awaited season for many Americans, especially students. Aside from summer reading assignments and the occasional extra-credit project, summer is the time when students can collectively take a…

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    What Will Public Homelessness Funding Look Like in 2023?

    Ending Homelessness Jul 30, 2022

    What Can Annual Appropriations/Spending Do? The most important item left on Congress’s active agenda related to homelessness is the annual funding bills for Fiscal Year 2023. In those bills, the Alliance…

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    Maximizing Impact and Financial Returns When Investing

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jul 30, 2022

    Although the field of impact investing has experienced astounding growth over the past decade, there remain concerns about its ability to generate both outsized financial and social returns. Can investors…

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  • Fixing Grant Application Technical Issues

    Fluxx Jul 29, 2022

    It’s no secret that millions of mission-related hours are lost every year navigating cumbersome grant application processes. To identify the needed top changes, a survey was launched by Laura Solomons,…

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  • How Nonprofits Are Increasing the Accessibility of Animal-Free Products

    Animal Charity Evaluators Jul 29, 2022

    This post highlights some of the ways animal advocacy groups are transforming the food system and other industries by increasing the availability of animal-free products. Our goal here is not…

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  • ‘Rage Giving’: Charities Can Get a Boost from Current Events

    The Conversation Jul 29, 2022

    When anger over everything from the killing of unarmed people of color to new restrictions on access to abortion bubbles over, many Americans act on it. One avenue for someone…

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  • Translating Risk Ratings Into Future Costs Can Help Homebuyers and Renters Grasp the Odds

    The Conversation Jul 29, 2022

    If you look at homes on real estate websites today, you’ll likely see risk ratings for flooding, hurricanes and even wildfires. In theory, summarizing risk information like this should help…

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  • Donors Can Support Racial Equity Through Funding Documentaries

    Media Impact Funders Jul 29, 2022

    Across America, there is a battle being fought in state houses and school boards over the future of our society, and whether we will continue to build on progress to…

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  • Detention of Immigrant Children Continues Under Biden Administration

    The Marshall Project Jul 28, 2022

    During their harrowing journey from Venezuela to the Texas border, the three Zaragoza children liked to imagine the refuge they would find when they reached the United States, a place…

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  • The Pandemic-Related Rise in Murder Rates in Rural Areas

    The Rural Blog Jul 28, 2022

    Murder rates in rural America “have soared during the pandemic,” report Dan Frosch, Kris Maher and Zusha Elinson of The Wall Street Journal. Rebecca McCoy, prosecutor in White County, Arkansas,…

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  • New Tool Visualizes How the Impacts of Racial Bias Build Up Over Lifetimes

    RAND Corporation Jul 28, 2022

    Decades after the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of explicit racial discrimination, Black households in the United States still hold only a fraction of the wealth of White households.…

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