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Global Poverty

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    Five Top Ideas in the realm of peace, prosperity and planet

    PR Newswire Sep 7, 2017

    In collaboration with open innovation platform OpenIDEO, Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation is inviting social innovators to come together to address urgent global challenges at the intersections of peace, prosperity and planet in radically new ways.…

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    A call for moral courage in America

    Ford Foundation Sep 6, 2017

    When I was first appointed president of the Ford Foundation, I felt joy and excitement about the work to come. Every year since then, I have offered a September message…

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    Full-Time Work Is the Best Route out of Poverty

    Cato Institute Sep 6, 2017

    Most people in poverty in the UK are white. According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report on UK poverty published in March, a whopping 81 per cent…

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    Across Canada and US, Migrant Farm Workers Increasingly at Risk

    Nonprofit Quarterly Sep 5, 2017

    The migrant workers that farms across Canada and the U.S. rely on are being forced into increasingly precarious circumstances, according to new investigative reports in the New York Times and ProPublica. In…

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    Is Seattle’s Rising Minimum Wage Helping Or Hurting Workers?

    Fast Company Sep 5, 2017

    As the minimum wage goes up in Seattle–with workers now required to make as much as $15 an hour, and all workers set to make that much by 2021–the city…

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    Lessons from New Orleans Post-Katrina: Addressing Equity Threats in Rebuilding

    NonProfit Quarterly Sep 2, 2017

     The damage that Hurricane Harvey is doing to the greater Houston area raises haunting memories of the devastation that New Orleans faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Once the…

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    An initiative helping families out of poverty independently

    New Profit Sep 1, 2017

    The New York Times piece, titled “When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty,” shines a light on the work that Lim Miller is doing to reshape how we think about…

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    Public Private Partnerships Are Making the Sewage System Safer In Bangladesh

    Skoll Foundation Sep 1, 2017

    In Bangladesh, nearly half of 55 million urban residents lack the sanitation infrastructure to properly process human waste. The result: massive amounts of raw waste is unsafely dumped, fouling the…

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    How to Know if a Philanthropy is Legitimate

    Mickey Berlianshik Sep 1, 2017

    Check out reliable websites Fantastic resources to verify the legitimacy of certain philanthropies are a few sites that keep records of real charities and ones that are more questionable. Probably…

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    Building Educational Equity to Create Opportunity: Richard Carranza

    Hispanics In Philanthropy Sep 1, 2017

    For Richard A. Carranza, the newly appointed Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, education has always represented a powerful gift brimming with opportunity. But he knows how hard it…

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    How to Move Millions Up the Income Ladder

    Rotman Aug 29, 2017

    Drawing from a year-long research effort, we have identified opportunities where $1 billion of targeted private funding would have a chance to provide low-income individuals with an equal opportunity to…

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    The Urban-School Stigma

    The Atlantic Aug 28, 2017

    Urban schools don’t inspire much confidence these days. Politicians and policy leaders routinely bemoan their quality. And media outlets regularly run stories of “failing urban schools.” Middle- and upper-income parents have…

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