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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 Quebec law is even more recent—the category of solidarity cooperatives was created in 1997. The enabling legislation in Italy dates from 1991.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

This record acts as a form of permanent punishment, limiting our ability to participate in civil society through a complex web of laws in Illinois that punish people with criminal records, often indefinitely. Rehabilitation includes medical and psychological care, as well as legal and social services.

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How to Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation with Marshall Ganz

NonProfit Quarterly

MG: There is an interdependence between our political structures and our civil society structures. Since [the theorist] Robert Michels discovered the iron law of oligarchy , which states that there is a tendency for continuity to suffocate change, it is the challenge of democracy generally.

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Dr. James explains how to harness friendship reciprocity to unlock heroic donations

iMarketSmart

The simple game has an unbreakable law: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. In the extreme game, the law still applies. A simple example One fundraiser for a law school shared this story. “I ABA Law School Development Conference , San Diego, CA. [9] Civil Society.

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What Will It Take to Reimagine Security?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, Horizon 2045s legal strategies initiative is an interdisciplinary exercise in borrowing from, replicating, and integrating tactics from international environmental and humanitarian law to shrink the space in which the nuclear weapons complex can legally operate.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

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. More and more of society has been converted into commodities—that is, items that can be bought or sold. Indeed, the scope of resulting corporate control and influence has been astonishingly broad.