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Land Rematriation: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Donald Soctomah, Darren Ranco, Mali Obomsawin, Gabriela Alcalde, and Kate Dempsey

NonProfit Quarterly

Solidarity in Action: Sharing Equity, Power, and Land for Wabanaki Self-Determination,” panel at the Maine Philanthropy Center Conference, May 30, 2023. 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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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

They should all be taught the leadership skills that are critical for success in their field, regardless of whether their program is focused on agriculture, business, field work, bench science, public policy, public health, or any combination thereof.

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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. Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. Two of them—Dr. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. To interrupt this pattern, public policy must, at minimum, implement policies that tax wealth to cut down on the excessive concentration of wealth over time.

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Organizing the South—How Black Workers Are Challenging Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

It started with the early rise of the agricultural industry built on chattel slavery, when cotton was king of the exported cash crops—although tobacco, sugarcane, and rice were good business as well. Rockefeller, the “father” of modern philanthropy. To finally win the Civil War. 5 Chattel slavery made a lot of people a lot of money.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

10 As nonprofits attempt to solve social problems, they must solicit both government funding and private funding from philanthropy and, occasionally, even from corporations. Esteban Kelly and Mo Manklang, “Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy,” Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine 30, no.