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

NonProfit Quarterly

Cooperatives, however, UN officials hope, might be able to help nations better achieve these targets because they combine economic and social goals. The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership. That’s “phenomenal longevity,” he noted.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

3 Built on the Sesan River, the dam was part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which sought to expand its “foreign policy interests.” Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Given that many Japanese fail to recognize the structural discrimination against Okinawa, undoing it involves understanding the historical context of Okinawa’s oppression and why it has endured, and how policy makers and citizens can work to restore equity to the region. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.

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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.