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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Solugen is currently constructing a commercial biomanufacturing facility to scale production—and it is just one of many innovators in this market. Instead of constructing a new office, manufacturing or retail site, companies can first restore existing buildings. Contribute to ecosystem restoration.

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Calling All Nonprofit Champions: Join the Tennessee Nonprofit Network's Community Action Councils!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

As Tennessee's first statewide nonprofit association, Tennessee Nonprofit Network provides essential resources, research, training, and public policy support to empower nonprofits of all sizes. This opens doors for collaboration, expands our reach, and strengthens the overall nonprofit ecosystem. Who Should Apply?

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

By investing billions in affordable housing, we can start to address the growing housing crisis and help workers acquire homes, thereby further building their retirement security while creating construction jobs and stimulating local economies. 18 As AFSCME Local 3299 lays it out: B.

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The Promise of Impact Science

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In 2020, we published the first taxonomic meta-analysis of childhood obesity prevention interventions in collaboration with researchers from NIH, CDC, and several leading universities, which identified specific intervention components—not full interventions—correlated with positive outcomes. Next Steps for Impact Science.

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With Help from the Donors of Color Network, Two Organizations Are Creating Change

NonProfit Quarterly

There are 170 facilities that report toxic chemicals, and 149 report greenhouse gas emissions with 29 facilities proposed or under construction—all in majority Black communities,” Dr. Wright said. Additionally, 80 percent of Black people living in the Corridor live within three miles of multiple polluting facilities.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. 6 Shifting mindsets so that people are open to creating an economy that emphasizes collaboration among workers has been a challenge.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

22 Yet as racial justice movement leader Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has detailed, a race-neutral or “race-blind approach to addressing racial economic inequality has left the nation hobbled in public policy efforts to undo ongoing structural racism.” 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs.