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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits. agriculture and forestry), land reduction and management opportunities lie in adopting innovative products and increasing the productivity and biodiversity features of their working lands.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Although cooperatives have existed in Korea since the early 20th century—the Nonghyeop agricultural cooperative being one of the largest cooperatives in the world—before the FAC, it was hard to launch a cooperative at the grassroots level in large part because forming a cooperative required at least 200 members and $300,000 in capital.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits would be trusted to hire the right consultants and form partnerships that are collaborative and generative toward their racial and economic justice goals. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Farms, especially small farms, were failing.

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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

And then after the Penobscot project, it helped us in Maine to say, “Let this be the beginning, not the end, of our collaboration.” And Gabriela, the Sewall Foundation has really encouraged the conservation community’s effort to do our own learning through the First Light collaboration. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2022).

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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This may seem like an overly hopeful, impossible task, but not too long ago, humanity successfully accomplished such collaboration and advanced the benefits of another controversial technology: genetic sequencing. Like AI, one of the main concerns around genome mapping was privacy.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As food systems networks emerge and establish high-performing structures, members will become able to identify and respond to systems needs efficiently and collaboratively. Now, RIFPC is collaboratively planning with the same farmers and community groups to plan for the 2025 legislative session and beyond.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

It started with the early rise of the agricultural industry built on chattel slavery, when cotton was king of the exported cash crops—although tobacco, sugarcane, and rice were good business as well. This is why we must organize the South: to set the country back on a path toward building a multiracial democracy. To finally win the Civil War.