From Abby Vesoulis, Abigail Abrams / TIME: A guaranteed income program is giving people the financial security to invest in themselves, avoid predatory loans, pay off debt, and improve their general quality of life. The lack of conditions on how the monthly cash payments should be utilized gives recipients the freedom to do what they need with the money.
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Karen Suarez is the Vice President of Collective Impact at the Making Hope Happen Foundation, where she supports Uplift San Bernardino through cross-sector collaboration and collective action. Passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion, she leverages her experience to strengthen organizational...
Thomas Legrand is the Lead Technical Advisor for the UNDP-convened Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and has 20 years of experience in sustainable land use, climate change, sustainable finance, leadership, and developing inner capacities...
From Business Tech: 28 South African businesses and one Botswanan business participated in a 4-day week pilot in 2023. The results showed huge benefits for both employees and employers. Read the original story here. Find more wellbeing employee initiatives.
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From Katharine Houreld / The Washington Post: GiveDirectly runs a program that gives a lump sum of cash directly to those in need, without needing to qualify with other specifications (such as school enrollment or vaccination status). Lump sum funds...
Antonio Lyons, Director of Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute’s EnActors, is a multi-disciplinary artist and Applied Theatre Practitioner blending poetry, music, and movement. A Fulbright Awardee and Oregon Shakespeare Festival Producing Fellow, he created We Are Here, a social activism...
Alexandra Goossens-Ishii works as Programme Coordinator for environment, climate change & biodiversity for Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education. Her work focuses on the UN processes related to the environment, climate change...
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