Social Capital Campaign

Promoting social capital and the institutions that create it to D.C. lawmakers and leading opinion formers

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Of note: RAND research finds about 16 percent of young people (aged 18 to 24) in a typical community are disconnected: not working, not attending school, and not in a training program.

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PRACTITIONER: We ask practitioners with extensive experience "in the field" what the one government policy change would be on their wish list.

Here we ask Jim Farmer of @FTChild which works with 21,000 volunteers to serve 7,000 children across 45 states what would help.

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AMERICA'S TOP 10 LARGEST MARRIED-FAMILY GARDENS
NO. 1: DC-BALTIMORE-PHILADELPHIA SUBURBS, VA-DC-MD-PA, 79-86%

A married-family garden is an area where households with children that are headed by a married couple is at or above 79%. The Top 10 largest range from 79%-89%.

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Of note: Texas's Prison Entrepreneurship Program brings volunteer executives into prisons to teach business skills and build relationships that continue after release. They report more than 740 alumni businesses launched.

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PRACTITIONER: Partnership with local agencies can be critical to the success of a nonprofit providing services to the community. Jim Farmer of @FTChild shares how local partners and churches can work with local social services agencies.

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AMERICA'S TOP 10 LARGEST MARRIED-FAMILY DESERTS
NO. 1: MANHATTAN-BRONX, NY, 31-51%

A marriage desert is an area in which the share of householders aged 15 to 64 who are married falls below 52%. In the largest grouped marriage deserts the share ranges from 18% to 52%.

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MY LATEST: "Minnesota fraudsters didn’t just steal $250 million. They stole our trust"
Government partnerships with nonprofits done well can build social capital.
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Thanks to @Loisco for this write up of our Marriage Deserts report on @Deseret with @KBurchfiel3 @SCCampaign and @FamStudies
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Traditional two-parent families vanish from big American cities as 'marriage deserts' expand https://t.co/zxJbPhzY1Z

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NEWS: "fewer than a quarter of households with children are now headed by married couples in certain neighborhoods in Cleveland, Washington, DC, Milwaukee and Detroit" @nypost covers my research "Marriage Deserts" with @KBurchfiel3 @FamStudies https://t.co/yiqTDjfm7b

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Of note: America's debt crisis is also a family policy problem.

Elliot Haspel and Joe Waters argue that rising interest payments and entitlement costs threaten to crowd out support for children and families.

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PRACTITIONER: We ask Jim Farmer of @FTChild how the organization has grown to national scale, operating in 45 states, while keeping a sense of local participation and leadership.

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AMERICA'S TOP 10 LARGEST MARRIAGE GARDEN
NO. 1: DALLAS-FORT WORTH SUBURBS, TX, 61-71%

A marriage garden is an area in which the share of householders aged 15 to 64 who are married is at least 61%. The largest grouped marriage desert is in Dallas, Texas–636,086 householders.

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Of note: Before becoming a legendary investor, Peter Lynch benefited from the social capital of the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts, YMCA and a scholarship.

His family's foundation has since given over $330 million.

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