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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. This must be rectified.

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How the Facing Race Conference Is Meeting the Political Moment: A Conversation with Leslie Grant-Spann

NonProfit Quarterly

The evolution includes not only thinking about policy as a way to move the needle on racial justice here in the US but also looking at how people are contributing to racial justice movement making through art, culture, narrative development, communications, cultural organizing, innovation, and technology. What will it take?

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, using code words in a communication that might be reasonably interpreted as a favorable or critical reference to a specific candidate or party during an election season might constitute prohibited electioneering.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

That money must be complemented by foundations or donors (or possibly government programs) that offer matching grants and technical assistance to the investment fund and/or the supported businesses. In other words, for these funds to work, a large enough number of investors must be willing to accept below-market-rate returns.

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Using Narrative Power to Advance Liberation: Six Key Elements

NonProfit Quarterly

In their forthcoming book Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st Century Social Movements , coeditors Shanelle Matthews and Marzena Zukowska share a compilation of stories by communications workers from some of the most impactful social movements in the United States. All rights reserved.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. About 20 percent are seated within government.

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: AndreyPopov on iStock The seeds of a financial system that works for the public are already all around us, from credit unions and loan funds to community bonds and Green Banks. Clear and accessible communication can transform public banking from an abstract concept into a shared vision.