Summer Reading: Eight Recent Books on Social, Economic, and Political Empowerment
These books offer perspectives on how we can enable a broader range of people to participate in our systems and institutions.
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The Role of Public Policy in Alleviating Poverty
To really make a difference in tackling inequality, we need coordination on a range of policy issues, from housing and transportation to jobs and education.
Cultural Benefits Transfer
A group of museums around the United States is providing poor families with unprecedented access to exhibits and activities.
Building Up Impact
The spread of affordable housing impact statements offers US cities hope for more equitable development.
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The People’s Budget
Participatory budgeting, which enables citizens to decide how to spend public funds, is building a more empowering model of democracy.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change
How government and philanthropy can unlock the billions needed to shelter America’s unhoused