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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

ASU Lodestar Center

While it has been adjusted for inflation, it has never accurately reflected household costs, nor does it take into account childcare costs or other family variables. The FPL was based almost exclusively on the cost of food, assuming that food is one-third of a family’s budget. is using the Self-Sufficiency Standard to define poverty.

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members). Putnam reflects on his previous article “Bowling Alone: America Social Capitalism”. Overhaul the governance model and committee operations.

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Philanthropy needs to change, but what can be done in fundraising for equity now?

ASU Lodestar Center

Rockefeller’s and Carnegie’s philanthropy continues to remain the main model for funding nonprofits, yet with increasing diversity (over the next two decades minorities will comprise more than half the population) these models based on white dominant norms will become increasingly irrelevant.

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