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

NonProfit Quarterly

The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership. More broadly, conference speakers asked hard questions about how co-ops can live up to their values and principles—to build scale and advance core cooperative goals of self-help and economic empowerment.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But our value comes from our ability to connect, educate, build capacity, support new programs and projects that fill critical gaps, communicate, advise, and coordinate advocacy for good food policy. Manifest your values. Cultivating your values to be cultivated do not cease at the close of the meeting.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

pollinator gardens) into areas under commercial, residential, agricultural, or other uses can offer meaningful benefits. agriculture and forestry), land reduction and management opportunities lie in adopting innovative products and increasing the productivity and biodiversity features of their working lands.

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2024 Nonprofit Voter Guide

MNA Association

What do you see as the value of nonprofits in Montana? As parents to four beautiful kids ranging from 4 to 10 years old, there’s nothing more important for Carmen and me than passing along the values of service and charity to them, including by supporting Montana’s nonprofits. What do you see as the value of nonprofits in Montana?

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, Korean citizens mobilized to donate 227 tons of their personal gold items (with an estimated total value of $3 billion) to help pay off the debt. The first social-responsibility public-procurement ordinances in Korea, they were meant to help social enterprises increase their market share and sustain long-term operations.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Worker-owned co-ops and benefit corporations are additional public policy frameworks for a just economy. They manifest the system of the game, the commonly understood language by which fairness, value, and quantity are measured, contested, adjudicated, and improved. But that’s not always the way things work.