Check out our founder, kristen grimm Kristen Grimm’s op-ed in Stanford Social Innovation Review. This piece dives into how #CivilSocietyLeaders can earn, gain and build trust in their institutions and our society. Check it out here ssir.org/articles/entry…  #TrustMatters

Brilliant interview. Great concept of "institutional body language" among other insights and urgency around how government organizations can better serve the public

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore releases strategic plan with 10 goals washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

"Eighteenth-century democracy is not enough" - great essay tying together the benefit of democratic innovations like citizens assemblies with underlying changes in society

If you missed it the first time, @kqedforum is re-airing the really fun interview I did with @alexismadrigal on Monday. Alexis is a fantastic interviewer, and so many of our callers were public servants!

At Nature Human Behaviour: "Consumption Responses to an Unconditional Child Allowance in the U.S." We study how the 2021 CTC expansion affected family expenditures using observed (rather than reported) consumption data from 1.3 million establishments. nature.com/articles/s4156…

A frustrating and familiar story. Seems like the problems lie in the patterns of implementation, not the policy

We Would Never Sleep by David Hernandez Poetry Foundation poetryfoundation.org/poems/147366/w…

Good overview of opportunities for systems change in foster care emersoncollective.com/articles/reali…

Navigating a World Where Democracy Falters: Empowering Agency through a Freedom-Centric Governance by Noura Hamladji نورة حملاجي UN Development undp.org/africa/blog/na…

➡️ DC is a pilot location, partnering w @DorisDukeFDN to launch Opt-In for Families. This 3-year, $33mm initiative connecting families in #childwelfare system to local & direct support for basic needs will lessen stress, neglect, and abuse. Learn more: buff.ly/3VamcL2

How a complicated benefits system lets some fall through the safety net pbs.org/newshour/show/…

The story of Amber Bhagwatsingh, 36, one of the millions of Americans crushed by rising child care costs. The GOP/Manchin blocked Biden's planned childcare expansion, and costs have surged in Michigan washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

D.C. gets funds to expand ‘warmline,’ a social services hotline wapo.st/4a0dnYY

Good overview of TANF and its challenges newrepublic.com/article/180073… from Grace Segers

My story in this week's The New Yorker: on the radical experiment of Marlene Engelhorn, an Austrian heiress who assembled a council of fifty strangers to give away her inheritance. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

"Every step that law takes down the enormous hierarchy of bureaucracy, the incentives for the public servants who operationalize it is to take a more literal, less flexible interpretation."

Trapped in a Social Safety Net npr.org/2024/12/08/121…

Frances Perkins was America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the longest-serving Secretary of Labor. Today, a new national park honoring her life and service has been established in Newcastle, Maine. nps.gov/orgs/1207/secr…