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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. These scenarios arent hypothetical. What might building strategic relationships look like?

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. In a massive charitable response, vast networks of locally supported food pantries, coat drives, homeless shelters, community clinics, and free schools have been launched and sustained.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Sekem in Egypt, an initiative with a vision of sustainable development that enables individuals and society to thrive in harmony with the natural environment, started its context development ambitions with investments in local infrastructure, roads, buildings, fertile land, and electricity.

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