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Building evidence and innovating programs to reduce disparities in children’s well-being 

Candid

National scores ranged from 386 for Black children, 418 for American Indian or Alaska Native children, and 452 for Hispanic children, to 612 for children of two or more races, 697 for white children, and 771 for Asian and Pacific Islander children. Enabling young people to attain this level of education is key to ensuring that the U.S.

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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

While CVS lost $2 billion in annual cigarette sales in the first year of its new policy, its pharmacy sales jumped. For example, at the heart of Alaska Airlines is a sense of stewardship for the people and places it serves. So far, Alaska has reduced its emissions by more than 35% per passenger mile since 2004.

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They work together in varied group sizes to consider historic issues, significant moments in the Senate’s history and current policies affecting the country. Nearly 40 Alaska Native elders, storytellers, and community members contributed to the development of the game.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

Additionally, this decade saw several environmental disasters at the hands of companies including a massive oil spill in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . This disaster in particular lead to the founding of the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Companies, also known as CERES.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

They would help to identify, what were the needs, what were the communication and information needs that women doing this work have, what are the kinds of solutions and support that would help them do their work more effectively on the local level, and help them really and meaningfully influence policy?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work. I would have never imagined that my work would have me be working so directly with women, and a lot of them, and all the time.

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