Policy and Practice | June 2021

Revising Financial Policies and Practices: Supporting the Nonprofit Human Services Sector

By Katy Lederer, Phil Basso, and Barbara Armstrong

National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America , 1 was a groundbreaking report published by the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the American Public Human Services Association. It highlighted the need for greater collaboration in the human services ecosystem among nonprofit human services, community-based organizations (CBOs), government agencies, and philanthropy to strengthen overall human services capacity and promote social and economic mobility for the people and communities they serve, especially for people of color. Yet many CBOs, whose proximity to community is the closest, have them- selves been caught in a cycle of poverty. A

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