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    Who Profits from Correctional Banking?

    Prison Policy Initiative Nov 9, 2021

    As people in prison are increasingly expected to pay for everyday costs (food, hygiene items, correspondence, etc.), the mechanics of how people send money to incarcerated people assumes heightened importance. Family members…

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    How to Leverage Funding for Home-based Child Care

    Urban Institute Nov 9, 2021

    The federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) gives states and territories a flexible resource to engage in a broad set of activities targeting child care quality. States must spend at…

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    Local Leadership Needed to Make the Most of Federal Climate Funding

    Brookings Nov 8, 2021

    The urgency to address climate change is centering around two cities at the moment: Glasgow and Washington, D.C. World leaders are converging at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or…

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    How to Give in Sanctioned Locations

    Charity & Security Network | Charities Aid Foundation America Nov 8, 2021

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Charity & Security Network and Charities Aid Foundation America provide donors an overview of what it means to give in sanctioned locations and how to manage risk. …

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    How Art Can Inspire Viewers Toward Climate Action

    Pacific Standard

    Can art change the world? Or can it at least inspire people to engage with an urgent issue they’d otherwise be inclined to ignore? A new study of activist art…

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    Why Philanthropic Organizations Need to Work Together

    Philanthropy News Digest Nov 8, 2021

    Giving Compass’ Take: • Derrick Feldmann, writing for Philanthropy News Digest, discusses the importance of philanthropic organizations working collaboratively in an effort to create new meaningful partnerships. • How will…

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    The Importance of Broadband in America

    The Brookings Institution

    For the vast majority of us, broadband has become so commonplace in our professional, personal, and social lives that we rarely think about how much we depend on it. Yet…

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    Childcare Is Essential, Yet Underpaid

    The Hechinger Report Nov 7, 2021

    At Aliya Johnson Roberts’ two child care centers in Philadelphia, many employees aren’t done working when they clock out at the end of a long day nurturing and teaching young…

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    Land Conservation Starts From the Bottom Up in India’s Commons

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Nov 7, 2021

    “What do we see at the village level?” asked Jagveer Singh, of GVMNL, an NGO in Rajasthan, in India. “Encroachment is increasing, and regulatory authorities aren’t doing much. People tell…

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    What Creates Cultural Divides?

    The Naked Scientists

    In 1994, a teenager from Dayton, Ohio, found himself at the centre of a major international controversy… Michael Fay, then eighteen, was living with his mother and stepfather in Singapore…

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    What Does Mental Health Outreach Look Like?

    Local Initiatives Support Corporation Nov 6, 2021

    Kelly Wofford is a veteran community engagement professional in the field of health care. This past March, after five years as director of community relations at Erie County Medical Center,…

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    Getting the Youth Vaccinated Requires Connections

    Mashable Nov 6, 2021

    Paging Dr. Internet, we need a diagnosis. In this series, Mashable examines the online world’s influence on our health and prescribes new ways forward. The 18-year-old’s father described the devastation…

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