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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.

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Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Termed “The Walkers,” these newly migrant individuals and families found security in rural communities that were able to feed everyone throughout the shutdown, using traditional agricultural practices. The faces of a community’s leadership can change on a month-to-month or even day-to-day basis.

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From Food Pantry to Urban Farming: Food Justice Lessons from Camden

NonProfit Quarterly

One strategy for achieving that vision is to support urban agriculture and community agency, giving people the chance to produce their own food. Advancing urban agriculture in Camden. VF enables large-scale agricultural production in environments where space and soil are limited. Food Justice Innovation Hub.

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Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership Announces Nominees for the 30th Annual Heart of Marin™ Awards

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San Rafael, CA, November 17, 2022 – SAN RAFAEL, CA, NOVEMBER 17, 2022 – Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 30 th Annual Heart of Marin Awards. Excellence in Board Leadership (Sponsor: BioMarin ). Excellence in Leadership (Sponsor: Marin Community Foundation ).

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Rethinking Scale in Climate Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

There is common infrastructure, such as a savings and credit union, multi-sectoral cooperatives for storage of agricultural products and a farmer’s bank, and a network of agroecology schools. Grassroots movements accelerate scaling through distributed impact and leadership.

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Redefining Black Farming

NonProfit Quarterly

As defined by the National Agricultural Law Center, agritourism links agricultural production with tourism to entertain with and educate about farming, ranching, or any agricultural business. However, most of that revenue is not going to Black-owned farms as 98 percent of private US agricultural land is white owned.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Ash Bruxvoort

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Ash Bruxvoort coordinates communications for the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. I also manage the Plate to Politics program, which teaches women in our network leadership skills that will help them run for office. We talk about feminism, sexism and racism in agriculture, self-reflection and self-improvement.