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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

It is also when the National Cooperative Business Association Cooperative League of the USA (NCBA CLUSA), the US national co-op association, hosts its annual Cooperative Impact conference in Washington, DC. The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

Limited access to education is also a social vulnerability: the systemic barriers further exacerbate the disproportionate impacts of climate change on marginalized communities. The climate crisis is an urgent and pervasive threat, and it disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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The AI-Powered Nonprofits Coding a Greener Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Fast Forward’s research of how APNs are using AI to fight climate change found a vast range of use cases, including decarbonizing supply chains, tracking pollution, predicting disasters, optimizing sustainable farming practices, protecting biodiversity, and equipping policy makers with better data.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: DOERS on istockphoto.com Studies of climate change impacts “have largely focused on physical health,” according to a policy brief issued in summer 2022 by the World Health Organization (WHO). They may lose their homes. This, in turn, can lead to forced migration as families attempt to flee conflict.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It also inadvertently contributes to the association between Okinawa's poverty and local people's values and behaviors. Article 14, Section 1 of the Japanese Constitution states, "All citizens are equal under the law and shall not be discriminated against based on race, creed, gender, social status, or lineage."

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Betting on Migration for Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While immigration policies have prioritized high levels of education or family ties—and the political conversation tends to presume a basic scarcity of jobs—critical jobs in construction, agriculture, hospitality, and the care economy, including elderly care, cannot be automated.