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Setting a Co-op Table for Food Justice in Louisville

NonProfit Quarterly

We are under pressure to meet agreed-upon timelines for site preparation, store design, permitting, and construction. Construction is anticipated to start in the third quarter of 2023. In 2024, the Louisville Community Grocery should open its doors in Smoketown , a downtown neighborhood and the first of the city’s Black settlements.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Having opportunities to play and laugh is as essential as being able to participate in political and religious life, own property, and engage in work. Nevertheless, it remains an excellent starting point for considering healthy contexts and provides practical guidance for developing Zero-Problem Philanthropy practices.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the Economic Policy Institute, in the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1 percent of workers participated in a union election each year. 40 In a similar vein, Freelancer Union founder Sara Horowitz has called for a return to “mutualism”: a political and economic system that builds solidarity among people within their community.

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A Political Roadmap to Social Housing: How Do We Win?

NonProfit Quarterly

Including labor , faith , and racial equity groups can help increase homeowner participation in housing justice coalitions, and several are reaching out to homeowners facing housing precarity and involuntary displacement. Construction of new rental social housing will be more challenging.