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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.

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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 how do we do our work ethically as it relates to Indigenous people?’ And how do we do our work ethically as it relates to Indigenous people?” Federal land policy in Maine,” Public Policy in Maine, Ballotpedia, accessed September 5, 2023, ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_policy_in_Maine#Land_and_Water_Conservation_Fund.

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A Historical Model for AI Regulation and Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

People were afraid that employers and health insurance companies would use the data from genome mapping to discriminate, and they demanded a public policy response. Given these broad concerns, an interdisciplinary team of biologists, physicists, chemists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers were engaged in the project.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

In short, a social and solidarity economy is ruled by an ethic of care and a commitment to protect and amplify life on this planet. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. If public dollars are secured and you perform well, that can help.