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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We We need] the means to build associations that are powerful enough to successfully challenge the economic powers that be. Mutualism is the right to associate let loose in the economy. This must be rectified.

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Rough Draft of a Nonprofit Social Media Policy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. What resulted is a crowd-sourced rough draft of a nonprofit social media policy (link to a Word doc for you to download).

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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Such forms of living, however, have huge economic and social costs, as over-stressed and under-supported parents must attend to their children and aging parents from their isolated apartments or homes. That means transforming the zoning regulations, financial structures, and social patterns that separated them, just over a century ago.

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From Unpaid to Unstoppable: The Rise of the Professional Community Health Worker Movement

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Im standing in the Kenyan Parliament shoulder-to-shoulder with 62 other community health workers (CHWs) from our Kenyan advocacy association, speaking to decision-makers in one unified voice with a clear demand: Pay us for our labor. After all, I still had to care for my own family: my wife and three girls. Fast-forward to 2022.

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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

Even the traditional national teacher unionsthe National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)are dominated by members working in K12 systems, not higher education. This view is truly disruptive of historic social relationships and university hierarchies. This simple organizing slogan caught on.

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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

One powerful way to change this and support gig drivers is by creating a cooperative, specifically a social cooperative. Social cooperatives share the same goal as other cooperatives, including following a principle of one person, one vote in organizational governance. A] unique feature of social cooperatives is their social mission.

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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Theoharis is the executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice , which found that roughly 140 million or 43.3 An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. Homelessness is being criminalized, observes Theoharis.