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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. The provincial government agreed to help underwrite worker salaries. The governance model for solidarity co-ops is a multi-stakeholder approach.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative is bringing civil society, philanthropy, and public and private institutions to align climate ambitions, pool resources, and share knowledge. For example, the Tata Trusts in India integrate water security, agricultural resilience, and gender equality in their rural development programs.

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Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”

NonProfit Quarterly

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Yet, a recent literature survey by Mezzenzana and four other colleagues notes how the Nurturing Care Framework largely excludes insights and evidence from anthropology, cultural psychology, and ethnography. Nor does it incorporate context-sensitive research from the target communities.

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In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We found that in Brazil, social entrepreneurs from poor communities differ significantly from those from higher social classes, especially in terms of their access to financial, human, psychological, and social capital. Let us look at these types of capital one by one.

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3 More Strategies + 6 New Tips To Boost Generosity

Bloomerang

We know a lot more about psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics than we did in the past, and the more you incorporate science into your marketing, the more your supporters will feel your messaging resonates with them. People are different, but in predictable ways. Why is this important?

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. 5 We won’t hazard a guess as to the psychology of androids, but we can say with certainty that corporate messages have entered human dreams.