MNA Association

JUNE 12, 2023

.” Often, it’s a specialty issue that triggers the challenge: hospitals not paying property taxes yet having such a large real estate footprint, or nonprofits owning agricultural land and getting a “discounted” ag rate on their taxes yet not being ag producers. MNA fights to protect tax exemption, and rightfully so.

Public Policy 98

Public Policy Taxation Public and Nonprofit Management Agriculture 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Biodiversity Loss and Global Corporations The imminent loss of one million species presents a grave threat, impacting human health, food security, rural communities worldwide, and over half of the global GDP. pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits.

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

So it is not affiliated with the Tribal governments in a direct way or overseen by them but led by more grassroots organizers, who work directly in community for food sovereignty, rematriation, and land returns. But in our focus area of supporting Wabanaki communities and Tribal governance, we fund language, we fund food sovereignty.

Nonprofit governance and management 87

Nonprofit governance and management Culture Governance Public and Social Policy 87

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Please note that Tennessee Nonprofit Network monitors all bills that impact nonprofits and the communities they serve, but we only take positions on issues impacting the entire nonprofit sector and align with our public policy agenda. Want to take action on a bill below? Find your legislators here. Did we miss any important bills?

Health 52

Health Nonprofit governance and management Healthcare Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.

Public and Social Policy 57

Public and Social Policy Food Leadership Health 57

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. The current market economy fails to effectively distribute goods and services to large segments of the population, resulting in poverty and maldistribution of food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Public and Social Policy 118

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 118

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

Public Policy 68

Public Policy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 68