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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone.

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Strategic Nonprofit Growth: Navigating the 7 Stages

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Established nonprofit organizations play a vital role in addressing social issues, driving positive change, and enriching communities. Beliefs and Organizational Culture The collective behaviors, norms, and shared values that shape the nonprofit’s work environment. Embarking on the journey of developing new programs can be daunting.

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Building Public Support for Employee Ownership: Lessons from Colorado

NonProfit Quarterly

This number is somewhat deceptive since it includes large public companies where the only employee benefit is stock ownership. This involves activating and collaborating with the state’s Minority Business Office and working with community groups to provide culturally relevant programming and support.

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Remaking the Economy: Building Regional Solidarity Economies

NonProfit Quarterly

What is the role of culture and the arts in the solidarity economy? How can community economic organizing build on African and Indigenous cultural traditions? How do solidarity economy activists join forces with labor unions, racial justice groups, and other social movement organizations?

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Drazen Zigic on istock.com Work requirements—or requiring people to find employment in order to access public benefits—force people to prove that they deserve a social safety net. But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? So, what keeps them alive today?

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How Guaranteed Income Can Support the Arts—And Ourselves

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite the accolades, these artists were low-income and eligible for our program, which means they’d fallen through the severed US social safety net. Could a regular public program of guaranteed income, especially for artists, make a difference? That is the critical policy question that our pilot intended to explore.