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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s time to work shoulder-to-shoulder with civil society and government to do the big, urgent work that no sector can accomplish alone, to adopt entirely new systems of operating that enable all people to thrive and reach their full potential and protect our natural environment.

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Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It was these earlier forms of automation that contributed to the decline of American manufacturing employment and the huge increase in inequality over the last four decades. Neither the tech industry nor other large corporations will undertake a huge course correction without strong pressure from others in society.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even with augmentation, a sector that accounts for over 10 percent of the nation’s private employment and provides more jobs than the manufacturing industry shouldn’t have to rely solely on a network of volunteers for access to basic summary data.

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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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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In retrospect, we can see with a borderless threat like COVID-19, collaboration was stymied across and within countries: Lacking clearly defined and owned targets, country responses often failed to meaningfully engage civil society.

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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the CCPA: Long-standing civil society resistance to fossil fuel extraction and transportation—built over 20 years and met with multiple key successes—has moved toward implementing a just transition. There is now an active province-wide public debate on energy transition and its social and ecological dimensions.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

CS: Well, it’s really interesting, because NPQ is, I think, the only media organization in civil society that’s not focused exclusively on philanthropy. Movement leaders were asking for it. Nonprofit leaders were asking for it. Funders were asking for it.” And it’s really interesting to me how much philanthropy still wants from us.