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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. These terms come from Robert Putnam, Harvard researcher and author of Bowling Alone.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide. It is a time where a lot of organizations are going through an intergenerational transfer of leadership, and a lot has been written about what does that mean? Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. CRUS’ Innovation and Growth Fund , launched in 2021, will contribute significantly to the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.